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About one billion smartphones in the world risk being infected and damaged by mms. It is the alarm that comes from a startup based in San Francisco that deals with security, the Zimperium. Engineers in California have discovered a serious flaw in Android, called Stagefright, through which hackers can crack the operating system so much easier. With a simple MMS (multimedia evolution of SMS), a hacker can get into an Android smartphone and prelevarne all data, but also to take full control of the device, activating the microphone, speaker and App.
The real strength of Stagefright is yet another, and regards the inability of intervention. The malicious message, in fact, is self-installing, namely not need the user to open it. Contamination occurs when received, without any chance to prevent it. Hacker need only the phone number, and you’re done. And now think of a mass mailing is far from science fiction.
It is no coincidence that Stagefright was immediately renamed the Heartbleed of smartphones, with clear reference to the flaw found a year ago in the OpenSSL library that has endangered millions of computers worldwide.
The vulnerability discovery today is, according to those Zimperium, 95% of Android devices. That is about 950 million devices between smartphones and tablets. All the Android versions from 2.2 onward are vulnerable, they know from San Francisco.
Google, meanwhile, is already running for cover making available a patch against Stagefright and trying to calm the waters. “This vulnerability – have made it clear from Mountain View a few hours Fanon was identified in laboratory environment on older Android devices and, to our knowledge, no one has been hit by the virus. As soon as we are aware, we immediately activated to send to our partners a bug fix to protect users. ” As for the other flaws, however, the update system will be slow. And those of Zimperium swear that the risk is real. Eyes open, then.
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