Android smartphones at risk for texting hacks, expert warns
BPC Staff Jul 27, 2015 | 3:57 pm
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88 wordsAll Latest News, Innovation and EntrepreneurshipAs many as 950 million Google Android phones are at risk from an attack that is delivered by a simple multimedia text, a mobile security expert warned today. The vulnerabilities are said to be the worst Android flaws ever uncovered, reports Forbes.com. Joshua Drake of Zimperium zLabs, who reported the bugs in April, said although Google has sent out fixes to its partners, he believes most manufacturers have not made those fixes available to protect their customers. Only Android phones below version 2.2 are not affected, he added.
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