Skype on Android user beware: serious security flaw

Only if you have the rouge apps downloaded on your phone. Skype should step up with their security. LAX is not the right word. Terrible coding. Google should also close down on these apps that just has access to everything. Android is very open.
 
Official warning email from Skype

Dear user.name

Thank you for downloading and using the Skype for Android software. Unfortunately, it has come to our attention that if you were to install a malicious third-party application onto your Android device, it could access the locally stored Skype for Android files. These files include cached profile information and your instant message chat history.

We take our users’ privacy very seriously and are working quickly to protect you from this vulnerability, including securing the file permissions on the Skype for Android application. This update will be available shortly and as always we urge you to install updates to benefit from our continuous fixes and improvements.

Until the update is released, to protect your personal information, we advise that you as always take care when selecting which applications to download and install onto your device from the Android Marketplace.

For more information see our Security Blog at blogs.skype.com/security or our security section at skype.com/security.

Adrian Asher
Chief Information Security Officer
Skype Information Security
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In other words, to protect yourself, don't download crap like Skype from the Android Marketplace. Your best bet to protect yourself is to uninstall Skype. Hopefully it will delete all the user information as well.
 
Don't have it on my Android device. Could never get it to work, so I uninstalled it. Good thing.
 
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