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Serious security gaps threaten more than 900 million devices on the Android!


Revealed a security expert on the sidelines of a special conference informational security for the discovery of a group of serious on the Android operating system vulnerabilities, and is not the seriousness of these gaps only in what they can do on the target hardware, and but also in the number of endangered devices and that hundreds of millions more than their number.

Various media quoted security researcher "Adam Donanfeld / Adam Donenfeld" of the famous security company "Check Point" discovered a series of serious security gaps, and number four bearing the name "QuadRooter" and started working devices threaten system Android, and on the sidelines "DefCon conference "for information security, and it basically Atalq devices operating processors from the company" Qualcomm / Qualcomm ".

According to security expert Adam Donanfeld these gaps "QuadRooter" threaten more than 900 million device system Android and processors Qualcomm where gaps exist this level triggers these processors, and was able to control the user phones by hackers through disguised install malicious software.

And Check Point company says it has to inform the company, "Qualcomm" Vulnerability in April and so the order of 90 days before they discover the gaps have been met, and that Qualcomm confirmed that it has reformed these gaps is currently preparing special security updates phones manufacturers that deal with it, and yet the Check Point suggests that a large number of phones are still interested in these gaps such as telephones newer companies HTC and LG and Huawei ...

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