Five-Year-Old Android Flaw Exposes SMS, Call History
A five-year-old privilege escalation vulnerability in Android disclosed today affects hundreds of different device models going back to Jelly Bean 4.3.
View ArticleFCC, FTC Investigate Mobile Security Update Practices
The FTC and FCC have given mobile device makers and carriers 45 days to report on their respective security update practices.
View ArticleLatest Android Security Bulletin Heavy on Critical Qualcomm Flaws
Google's monthly Android Security Bulletin patches eight critical vulnerabilities, including a half-dozen in various Qualcomm drivers, Mediaserver, and libwebm.
View ArticleAndroid Security Bulletin Features Two Patch Levels
Google today released its monthly Android Security Bulletin, and points out that there are two security patch level strings in today’s bulletin: July 1 and July 5.
View ArticleGoogle Patches Dozens of Critical Qualcomm Components Flaws
Google today in the monthly Android Security Bulletin patched more than three-dozen critical vulnerabilities in Qualcomm components.
View ArticleGoogle Patches Quadrooter Vulnerabilities in Android
Today’s monthly Android Security Bulletin includes patches for the remaining Quadrooter vulnerabilities in Qualcomm chipsets.
View ArticleGoogle Shuts Down Potentially Massive Android Bug
Google patched another critical vulnerability that affects potentially every Android device that is exploitable just with a specially crafted jpeg file.
View ArticleDirty Cow Vulnerability Patched in Android Security Bulletin
Today's Android Security Bulletin included a patch for the Dirty Cow vulnerability, a seven-year-old Linux bug that had yet to be patched by Google.
View ArticleZimperium Acquisition Program Publishes Exploits for Patched Android Bugs
Exploits for patched Android elevation of privilege vulnerabilities were published through the Zimperium N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program.
View ArticleGoogle Patches KRACK Vulnerability in Android
Google this week finally addressed the KRACK vulnerability in Android, three weeks after the WPA2 protocol flaw was publicly disclosed.
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