A New Research Points Out the Biggest Flaw of Android Phones
A Report published on Monday pointing out some security flaws they discovered in Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge which launched this year. According to the report this security flaws exist because of the changes made to Android by Samsung.
A Report published on Monday pointing out some security flaws they discovered in Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge which launched this year.
According to the report this security flaws exist because of the changes made to Android by Samsung. As you know Samsung changes the user interface and put some customized apps, you can see the pure version of Android on Google’s phones like Nexus. And looks like Samsung played with it so much and that causes some potential new security holes.
Samsung was able to fix most of serious security holes, but Google found new ones on the Galaxy S6 Edge. Well what are the security flaws, one of them called ” StageFright “, This one was a problem for most of the Android phones, this is one is just able to get control of your phone with a simply text message, Google try to fixed it but not all Android phones able to get it.
Are You Vulnerable to Android Stagefright? Download the app called ” Stagefright Detector ” from App Market to check your phone is vulnerable to this flaw.
Unfortunately having an Android phones, these problems mostly supported by the manufacturers and fixed. You still need to be careful and try not download apps from third party web sites.
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Rachel Kowalski
Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.
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