“This is a radical and dangerous new development on the portable device threats front, and users need to exercise extreme caution as a result.
“For this reason, I would urge iPad users not to install these ported Android apps, as they could be an avenue for a world of infection pain that cannot be stopped by most conventional iPad IT security software”, he added.
It remains to be seen how Apple reacts to this development, but I suspect that defending the integrity of the Apple tablet computer is going to be no easy task where ported Android software is concerned”, he said. The iPad, he added, is an especially attractive target owing to the fact that Apple operates a strict walled garden approach to its iTunes software store, which has been – he noted – the sole source of apps for the iPhone and iPad unless the user has jailbroken their device. Taylor went on to say that, since we are dealing with an unofficial port of a virtual machine and third-party apps that were coded quite specifically for the Android smartphone and tablet computing platforms, there is a real risk that the ports will have been created by black hat hackers – or cybercriminals – who have an understandable interest in infecting the user's iPad. “Unfortunately, because of the way in which Android apps are running on the non-Android portable device platform, there is a grave danger that on-device IT security software may not be currently capable of spotting any trojans or similar darkware that have been coded to specifically take advantage of the Dalvik port”, he added. “In those instances, users were keen to run Mac software on hardware costing a fraction of the Apple price, but in this case, it seems that the sheer diversity of Android apps – many of which are free – is the attraction for Apple iPad users”, he said. Grant Taylor, the firm's UK vice president, says that computing history is littered with instances of crackers developing methods of running one platform's software on another – with the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga home computing systems being adapted to run Apple Mac software in the late 1980s being classic examples.
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