Josh Drake scared Android users when he revealed the Stagefright exploit, but he has a few more tricks up his sleeve. Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of topics from space missions ...
What you need to know about the latest vulnerability. Attendees visit the Android booth during the Google I/O developers conference at the Moscone Center on May 15, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif. &#151 ...
Joshua Drake, the Zimperium zLabs researcher who revealed a bunch of bugs in Google's Android this week allowing a single multimedia text to hack 950 million phones, could be a lot richer than he is ...
Google has released another patch for the Stagefright vulnerability after a security firm said the first one didn’t fix it. Hundreds of millions of Android devices are vulnerable to Stagefright. A ...
Most hacker-related stories regarding Android are overdone with technopanic, but the newly discovered bug in Android’s multimedia playback tool Stagefright is one that has users more concerned than ...
Stagefright is a vulnerability in Android that allows an attacker to take over the mobile device with a single text message. It affects all Android devices—a billion or so around the world—so it’s a ...
Exploit code for the Android Stagefright vulnerability was made public, and researcher Joshua Drake hopes organizations will test Android systems and devices against the code. Joshua Drake, the ...
Frankly most people who get malware are asking for trouble. They open a suspicious file from a stranger, go to a skanky website, or download the movie or game that came out yesterday from BitTorrent.
Around 950 million people around the world who use Android devices are at huge risk of being attacked by unscrupulous hackers who only need to send a single message to get control of their smartphones ...
Android vulnerabilities have been surfacing regularly over the past couple of years. They stir up talk – usually some rather alarmist posts by security companies and a flurry of comments on various ...
The patch process for Android’s Stagefright vulnerability hasn’t gone quite as smoothly as Google hoped. Just eight days after Google, manufacturers, and carriers rushed out a fix for Stagefright, ...
LAS VEGAS—Just before Black Hat, Zimperium researcher Josh Drake revealed an exploit based off a media tool in Android called Stagefright. This exploit could allow an attacker to take control of an ...