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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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New Vulnerabilities Affect Over 900 Million Android Devices, Enable Complete Control of Devices
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(Score: 3, Informative) by choose another one on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:22AM
How did we get a Linux based OS to be like the next Windoze?
By winning the popularity contest and making it the biggest target.
For years some people have been saying that Linux was inherently more secure than Windows by design - they are (and were) wrong.
The relative amount of malware and vulnerabilities for Linux and Windows on the desktop reflects the relative popularity - nothing more. On phones the situation is reversed, and lo and behold Windows Phone is really secure, because... no one cares.
[There is a dissenting opinion, e.g. http://betanews.com/2015/06/11/windows-phone-security-is-top-notch-says-kaspersky/ [betanews.com] , which implies that MS is actually better at security than Linux but we'll ignore that because open source just can't be less secure than proprietary by design...]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @03:22PM
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