Tuesday, August 4, 2015


the security expert and researcher, "Joshua Drake" disroverd  the existence of modern security flaws threaten the safety of operating system Android devices and allows hackers to control your  devices by text  message.


Company "Zembariom" where  "Joshua" works as  security expert  warned that these gaps exist in more than 950 million android  phones and computers around the world, specifically versions 2.2 up to 5.1 version, which includes versions of Android KitKat and Lollipops.
And he found this serious imbalance which lies in the existence of a gap in a key component of the system is called Android "Stagefright" explaining that the majority of Android devices if not all this component you need to run different applications on the system transfer.
                   
According to the company, "Zembariom" these gaps allow reception of MMS messages to download video clips on the victim's computers without permission where the message is opened and loading procedure, and is done through these sections to install malicious software on the phone without the user's knowledge, and everything would take a hacker is to send a text to  the victim's phone and will take over it  

, "Zembariom" explained  that this gap affects about 95% of the Android mobile operating system, a device number is 950 million, the company has not yet determined solutions to protect against the risk of these gaps, adding that it is not detected the pirates to exploit this flaw yet.

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