“Today [May 18th] we’re starting to roll out a fix which addresses a potential security flaw that could, under certain circumstances, allow a third party access to data available in calendar and contacts. This fix requires no action from users and will roll out globally over the next few days.”
According to the German researchers Bastian Könings, Jens Nickels, and Florian Schaub’s this affects Android 2.3.3 and earlier also includes the Calendar, Contacts which transmit information “in the clear” via HTTP, and retrieve an authentication token (authToken) from Google.
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