Early last week we told you that a team of mobile security researchers has uncovered a critical vulnerability in the source code of about 95% of all active Android smartphones. Called Stagefright, the vulnerability allows potential hackers to take control of your smartphone by sending out a malicious MMS that gets automatically processed by smartphones, leading to all sorts of security issues.
While the researchers claim that they’ve yet to find evidence of the vulnerability being used by hackers, the extent of the security risk led them to call Stagefright one of the worst …
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