Cellphones using Google's Android operating system are at risk of being disabled or wiped clean of their data, including contacts, music and photos because of a security flaw that was discovered several months ago but went unnoticed until now.
Opening a link to a website or a mobile application embedded with malicious code can trigger an attack capable of destroying the memory card in Android-equipped handsets made by Samsung, HTC, Motorola and Sony Ericsson, rendering the devices useless, computer security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar wrote in a blog post Friday. Another code that can erase a user's data by performing a factory reset of the device appears to target only the newly released and top selling Galaxy S III and other Samsung phones, he wrote.
3 comments:
I was expecting to see a link to a fix for my phone. Nothing out there yet?
Researcher was probably financed by Apple
I am so technologically backward that this stuff scares the heck out of me.It seems like just yesterday when I was sitting in Movies 6 and I heard an odd sounding ring.2 girls were sitting about 3 rows in front of me.One pulled out a Motorola Flip Phone,(which I found out later),flipped it open and started talking.I must have told 3 or 4 people that day about it.Early to mid 90's maybe?
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