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950 million Android phones can be hijacked by malicious text messages
Almost all Android mobile devices available today are susceptible to hacks that can execute malicious code when they are sent a malformed text message or the user is lured to a malicious website, a security researcher reported Monday.
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Interestingly, the Stagefright vulnerability also affects Firefox on all platforms except Linux, and that includes the Firefox OS. Firefox developers have patched the vulnerability in versions 38 and up.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/...-text-messages/
This whole internets thing may have been a bad idea. Clearly nothing is even remotely safe.
950 million Android phones can be hijacked by malicious text messages
Almost all Android mobile devices available today are susceptible to hacks that can execute malicious code when they are sent a malformed text message or the user is lured to a malicious website, a security researcher reported Monday.
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Interestingly, the Stagefright vulnerability also affects Firefox on all platforms except Linux, and that includes the Firefox OS. Firefox developers have patched the vulnerability in versions 38 and up.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/...-text-messages/
This whole internets thing may have been a bad idea. Clearly nothing is even remotely safe.
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