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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