Security updates that are three months behind, but what if that's all you need to get some big, smart feature enrichments?
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LG V20 Quad DAC, all glass iPhones, and Android security concerns | Pocketnow Weekly 213
Apple gets smart about BETA testing software, while we’re already tracking rumors about next year’s iPhone. Google and Samsung respond to security concerns exploited at this year’s Def Con. And the LG V20 looks to impress audiophiles with a Quad DAC system! What does that even mean?!?!?Those stories, and we’ll tackle your viewer emails! Make sure you’re charged and ready for episode 213 of the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the live video broadcast from 2:00pm Eastern on August 11 (click
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Report: if you’re not secured, you should be scared (but really, don’t be)
Halloween approaches. You’re meeting up with friends at the bar, all dressed up for some disorienting fun. So disorienting, you might drop your phone off somewhere strange. If some swiper is so inclined, he or she will have a better-than-half chance of cracking into your phone and compromising your data. Statistically, at least.Mobile security firm Skycure is out with its Q3 threat survey. We can’t say that surveyors didn’t threaten anyone in order for them to take the survey, ...
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Sony Xperia Z5 and Xperia Z5 Compact get Stagefright-patching OTA updates
With the highly publicized Stagefright security vulnerability discovered way back in July, you’d think that gave Android device manufacturers enough time to safeguard fall flagships ahead of their commercial launches.But apparently, the Xperia Z5 and Z5 Compact rolled out to
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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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Google commits to patching Stagefright vulnerability soon
Even though hijacking an iPhone through a simple SMS has been a common topic lately, we know that iPhones aren’t the only devices vulnerable. Just yesterday we reported of “Stagefright,” which can hijack your Android device through a simple MMS by addressing the libStageFright media library. We’re talking about hundreds of millions of Android devices vulnerable here, and Google has just decided to speak up.Google spent some time at Black Hat 2015 clarifying that the company is ...
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