New Stagefright vulnerability in Android leaves a billion phones hackable

[IMHO]

There's a new exploit for Android that requires only to send a specially crafted MMS message - the receiver doesn't even need to look at it for malicious code to be executed:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2953052/security/most-android-phones-can-be-hacked-with-a-simple-mms-message-or-multimedia-file.html

[Chicog]

Downgrade to 2.2 apparently that's not affected.

[HooHaa]

cue the apple fanboys

[Tywais]

Downgrade to 2.2 apparently that's not affected.

Looks like you need to go lower than that.

The vulnerabilities found by Drake affect devices running Android versions 2.2 and higher

[alocacoc]

Just disabling Auto Retrieve MMS.

[IMHO]

Downgrade to 2.2 apparently that's not affected.

Looks like you need to go lower than that.

The vulnerabilities found by Drake affect devices running Android versions 2.2 and higher

Even if you could, you'd be left with a phone where almost nothing works right, and you can't find apps for...

Let's see how well vendors go with patching... apparently some Asus and Nexus devices have patches available..

[IMHO]

Just disabling Auto Retrieve MMS.

Read the story - MMS is not the only way to exploit the flaw - it's just the scariest.

[rhythmworx]

So glad I just have a phone without all the extra nonsense you pinch and grab folks have.

[speedtripler]

So glad I just have a phone without all the extra nonsense you pinch and grab folks have.

Let's see if these billion phones actually get hacked and if any do what the hackers benefit...

Another sky is falling story I expect

[BuddhistVirus]

Downgrade to 2.2 apparently that's not affected.

Hey...looks like I am safe then

[IMHO]

So glad I just have a phone without all the extra nonsense you pinch and grab folks have.

Let's see if these billion phones actually get hacked and if any do what the hackers benefit...

Another sky is falling story I expect

Wait until August 5th then roll the dice I guess