How 95% of Android Phones Can Be Hacked with a Single Text

A new Android vulnerability has the security world worried – and it leaves your Android phone extremely vulnerable. The issue comes in the form of six bugs in an innocuous Android module called StageFright, which is used for media playback. The StageFright bugs allow a malicious MMS, sent by a hacker, to execute malicious code inside the StageFright module. From there, the code has a number of options for gaining control of the device. As of right now, something like 950 million devices are vulnerable to this exploit. It is, simply put, the worst Android vulnerability in history. Silent Takeover Android users...

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