T-Mobile UK Announces Security Fix for Android Devices

Mobile phone carrier T-Mobile UK has just announced via a support forum post that all of its Android users should soon start to receive a software update on their devices, meant to solve a security issue these phones were recently reported to be affected by.

According to the wireless carrier, the software update should arrive on handsets in the next two days, and would be rolled-out to Orange users as well.

Here's what the wireless carrier announced on the matter:

We have been made aware of an issue which could potentially affect data security of the Calendar and Contact applications on Google Android smartphones when using unsecured Wi-Fi networks.

This issue cannot be resolved by Orange or T-Mobile and a fix is currently being rolled out globally by Google, this will be pushed to all devices within the next two days without the need for download.

This would be the same security fix that Google has announced to be on its way to Android-based devices since late last week.

At that time, Google confirmed that the update was meant to fix a security glitch with Android devices, which might have resulted in third-party access to data on the device.

Android 2.3.4 and above were not affected by the bug, but all previous releases of the platform needed the said fix.

The issue emerged from the manner in which Android sent authentication tokens over wireless networks. However, following the update, all Calendar and Contacts data should be safe.

“Today 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,” Google said then. “This fix requires no action from users and will roll out globally over the next few days.”

Just as T-Mobile noted in their announcement, Google unveiled that users need do nothing to receive the new software. The update would be deployed all around the world within a matter of days, it seems.