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New Vulnerabilities Affect Over 900 Million Android Devices, Enable Complete Control of Devices

posted by janrinok on Monday August 08 2016, @06:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the oops dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

QuadRooter Android vulnerabilities affect devices that are built on the Qualcomm chipset, a supplier of 80% of the chipsets in the Android ecosystem. If any one of the four vulnerabilities is exploited, an attacker can trigger privilege escalations and gain root access to a device, enabling them to change or remove system-level files, delete or add apps, and access the device's screen, camera or microphone.

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/08/08/quadrooter-android-vulnerabilities/

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  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday August 08 2016, @10:02PM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Monday August 08 2016, @10:02PM (#385491) Homepage Journal

    And that's why this sort of shit is bad. Because if you can break in, someone else can. Root your phone before using it seriously to avoid this kind of pain.

    I will never understand why when a iOS jailbreak in userland comes along people go "yay" when the right response should be "oh shit"

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @10:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @10:11PM (#385501)

    I will never understand why when a iOS jailbreak in userland comes along people go "yay" when the right response should be "oh shit"

    Because the reality is that for the people in question the chances of a hacker pwning their phone isn't actually that high while Apple/Google has already pwned their phone. Stuff like jailbreak lets those people pwn their own phone.

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday August 09 2016, @12:25AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday August 09 2016, @12:25AM (#385557)

    Meanwhile, my bank keeps nagging me about using their wonderful app ...