{"id":574,"date":"2015-07-28T09:22:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T01:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.boviner.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2015-07-28T09:22:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T01:22:35","slug":"major-flaw-in-android-phones-would-let-hackers-in-with-just-a-text-all-tech-considered-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/major-flaw-in-android-phones-would-let-hackers-in-with-just-a-text-all-tech-considered-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Flaw In Android Phones Would Let Hackers In With Just A Text : All Tech Considered : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Android users please take note. This time you don&#8217;t even have to download anything or visit any malware website to get hit by malware. A truly scary prospect if someone exploits it nefariously. According to another report cited, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/mobile\/android-malware-threat-rears-head-time-means-business\/\">99% of mobile malware<\/a> targets Android. The lack of a controlled OS patching process is probably why attackers target Android. In contrast, majority of iOS users upgrade to the latest version within weeks of release.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2015\/07\/27\/426613020\/major-flaw-in-android-phones-would-let-hackers-in-with-just-a-text\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.boviner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/istock_000039312462large-55de130cedd13a69d9586194b7dd7a95e6759bb9-s800-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>A security gap on the most popular smartphone operating system was discovered by security experts in a lab and is so far not widely exploited. It would let malicious code take over a phone instantly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2015\/07\/27\/426613020\/major-flaw-in-android-phones-would-let-hackers-in-with-just-a-text\">Major Flaw In Android Phones Would Let Hackers In With Just A Text : All Tech Considered : NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android users please take note. This time you don&#8217;t even have to download anything or visit any malware website to get hit by malware. A truly scary prospect if someone exploits it nefariously. According to another report cited, 99% of mobile malware targets Android. The lack of a controlled OS patching process is probably why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}