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95 percent of Android devices were affected in July-September quarter: Report
Tech2 News Staff •According to a report by Trend Micro, the Stagefright vulnerability affected nearly 95 percent of all Android devices. In total, five different vulnerabilities in media processing in Android were attacked this quarter.
Over 1 billion Android devices vulnerable to Stagefright 2.0: Report
Tech2 News Staff •According to a post on the Zimperium Mobile Security blog, there are a set of two vulnerabilities that manifest when processing specially crafted MP3 and MP4 video files. The vulnerability (in the libutils function of the Android OS) around MP3 files could impact almost every Android device according to Zimperium.
CyanogenMod updates to Android 5.1, includes Stagefright security fixes
Tech2 News Staff •Popular Android community operating system CyanogenMod has announced that it will be rolling out a revised version built for Android 5.1.1. Among the other key highlights of the build are support for IMAP Idle, the release of SDK v1 and also security bug fixes.
Stagefright -- the worst Android vulnerability ever dubbed 'heartbleed for mobile'
Fp Staff •Nearly 95 percent, or 950 million, Android devices are affected by this "scary" vulnerability, according to researchers.