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Qualcomm Working on Mitigations for Spectre, Meltdown
2018-01-08 08:36

Qualcomm has confirmed that some of its products are affected by the recently disclosed Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, but the company says mitigations are being deployed. read more

Multiple Vulnerabilities Found in NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Huawei Bootloaders (Threatpost)
2017-09-06 17:55

Researchers find six previously unknown memory corruption and unlock-bypass vulnerabilities in major chipset vendors' firmware code.

Google Patches 29 Critical Android Vulnerabilities Including Holes in Mediaserver, Qualcomm (Threatpost)
2017-01-04 18:33

Google patched a critical hole in its problematic Android Mediaserver component that could have allowed an attacker to use email, web browsing, and MMS processing of media files to remotely execute code.

Qualcomm and HackerOne Partner on Bounty Program (Threatpost)
2016-11-18 17:45

Qualcomm and HackerOne are partnering on a bug bounty program that pays out up to $15,000 for vulnerabilities found in chipsets used in smartphones made by Samsung, LG and HTC.

Qualcomm Chip Flaws Could Giver Attackers Root Access to Android Devices (August 8, 2016) (SANS Newsbites)
2016-08-09 19:04

Quadrooter Flaw in Qualcomm Chips Puts 900M Android Devices At Risk (Threatpost)
2016-08-08 15:11

Researchers at Check Point said the Quadrooter flaw that leaves 900 million devices open to attack will not be fixed until September.

Major Qualcomm chip security flaws expose 900M Android users (ArsTechnica)
2016-08-08 14:49

Latest Androids have god mode hack hole, thanks to Qualcomm (The Register)
2016-08-08 01:49

Google Patches Dozens of Critical Qualcomm Components Flaws (Threatpost)
2016-08-01 18:00

Google today in the monthly Android Security Bulletin patched more than three-dozen critical vulnerabilities in Qualcomm components.

Huge double boxset of Android patches lands after Qualcomm disk encryption blown open (The Register)
2016-07-06 19:29