Xuxian Jiang, a researcher at North Carolina State Unversity, has uncovered a security bug in the next version of Google's Android OS, Gingerbread. According to Jiang, the bug allows malicious websites to access a persons microSD card and upload the contents, including voicemails, photos and online banking information, to a remote server.
The flaw appears to be very similar to a known bug in previous version of Android that was thought to have been corrected in Gingerbread. Jiang says the fix for this bug in Gingerbread though is easily bypassed. Google is said to be working on a solution to the problem, but it is not known when a patch will appear.
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