Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Android phones are now facing a big security flaw. Hackers can easily erase whole content such as videos, musics, contacts etc. When the user visited a malicious web site with android phones having this security flaw, hacker's program will intrude in phones and execute their code, as a result whole content will be erased from phone. What happening is, the code will reset the program to factory settings.

What is that Security Flaw?
Android phone cannot recognise the phone number and USSD code (that is commands used to execute some operations).
Google released an update for solving this issue. HTC claims that their phones cannot hacked due to this security flaw. Because they are not using USSD codes for factory resetting. McAfee also stated that this security flaw cannot attract hackers because it cannot used to make money :-)

To read more about this issue click here
Or
http://www.isk.kth.se/~rbbo/ussdvul.html

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