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Permission-less apps take only seconds to root phones from LG, Samsung and Motorola. Researchers have devised an attack that gains unfettered “root” access to a large number of Android phones, exploiting a relatively new type of bug that allows adversaries to manipulate data stored in memory chips. The breakthrough has the potential to make millions of […]
Google released a bunch of Android patches today, covering off some previously-disclosed issues including the worrying Quadrooter bugs that affected 900 million phones. But another, previously-unknown critical weakness has been covered too and you’ll want to download the patch now because the hack can be delivered hidden inside an innocuous-looking photo in a social media or chat app. […]
Android Stagefright like attack for iPhone, All it takes is a specially crafted message to hack your iPhone If you remember the Stagefright vulnerability in Android discovered in July last year, you will know that a potential hacker can gain full access to your smartphone just by sending a specially crafted multi-media message. The Apple’s iOS operating […]
Joshua Drake, the researcher who found the so-called Stagefright vulnerability in Android, today released exploit code to the public, which he hopes will be used to test systems’ exposure to the flaw. The move comes more than a month after vulnerability details were released in August during presentations at the Black Hat and DEF CON […]
Short Bytes: This week, Google is releasing the “single largest software update the world has ever seen”. It has started rolling out patches for fixing the Android hijack bug Stagefright that targeted your phones with a single text. Android users were greeted with a shocking news last week when security researchers told the world about the Android hijack bug […]