Google, LG, O2, T-Mobile best in pushing Android security updates

The world is full of malice, scheming, bugs and hacks. The surface topic that the public has gotten to know this summer was the Stagefright vulnerability on Android, now in a second form that has sadly gotten less attention.The

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Stagefright 2.0 poised as a new threat through Android media files

If Stagefright was enough of a security scandal for Android devices a few months ago, keep in mind the internet is an ever-changing animal. The previous incarnation could have hackers take over your device by sending you a simple MMS and you didn’t really have to do anything to be affected. Obviously that was just the tip of the iceberg, and a new exploit takes life today.The Zimperium researchers have dubbed a new attack as “Stagefright 2.0,” and it lies in a core Android library called libutils, which affects ...

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