August 19th, 2008 by Chris Moor

Android Security Team Reach Out To Bug Hunters

The Android security team have appealed to security researchers for help in both finding and disclosing any vulnerabilities present in the Android OS.

In an email to Full Disclosure, the Android team wrote:

"As you may expect, building and maintaining a secure mobile platform is a difficult task," while we have found and fixed many of our own bugs as well as flaws in other open-source projects, we realize that the discovery of additional security issues in a system this large and complex is inevitable."

"We do appreciate and encourage responsible disclosure, especially since Android will be deployed on many different devices that will require a large amount of coordination to patch."

"Help from security researchers in the form of usable bug reports and responsible timelines will greatly assist us in securing the ecosystem of Android devices as quickly as possible."

The latest Android SDK, version 0.9 was made available to developers on Monday.