A hacker has unleashed an exploit that lets a user wrest administrative root control of a Motorola Droid smartphone. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
A hacker has unleashed an exploit that lets a user wrest administrative root control of a Motorola Droid smartphone. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
The flaw was recently patched in Android’s February Security Bulletin.
Google’s new password checkup tool joins other similar services including Have I Been Pwned and Mozilla’s Firefox Monitor.
The attack allows malicious applications to break out of their sandbox and access the entire operating system, giving an adversary complete control of the targeted device.
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