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Android battles to fix the holes where the rain gets in

10

Oct

2016

Google’s security mavens have been hard at work this month, patching an impressive 78 Android flaws in the firm’s latest update. All-told, seven issues are rated ‘critical’, including a hat-trick of kernel-level holes, a privilege flaw in the MediaTek video driver and three biggies affecting Qualcomm silicon. Qualcomm turns out to be a bit of […]

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New Android security vulnerabilities affect 900 million phones

09

Aug

2016

Qualcomm chipsets used in 900 million Android phones are vulnerable to four new types of attack, a security vendor announced Sunday. At the DEF CON hacker conference Sunday, Check Point unveiled four vulnerabilities that could give an attacker the highest level of control over a phone, often called “root.” Read More

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Devices with Qualcomm modems safe from critical ASN.1 telecom flaw

26

Jul

2016

Despite initial concerns, smartphones equipped with Qualcomm modems are not vulnerable to a recently announced vulnerability that could potentially allow attackers to take over cellular network gear and consumer mobile devices. The vulnerability was discovered in ASN1C, a popular compiler that produces C code for parsing ASN.1 encoded data. Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) is […]

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