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Your Android phone says it’s fully patched, but is it?
2018-04-16 17:14

How do fully-maintained (i.e., patched) Android phones end up getting exploited? Searching for an answer to that question spurred security researchers to analyze thousands of Android firmwares for the presence of hundreds of patches. Their research led to an unwelcome discovery: most Android vendors regularly forget to include some patches in the security updates provided to users. The research Security Research Labs researchers Jakob Lell and Karsten Nohl explained how they went about making the … More → The post Your Android phone says it’s fully patched, but is it? appeared first on Help Net Security.


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