Most hacker-related stories regarding Android are overdone with technopanic, but the newly discovered bug in Android’s multimedia playback tool Stagefright is one that has users more concerned than ...

StageFright is a 1987 Italian slasher film. It revolves around a group of stage actors rehearsing for a play about a mass murderer, not knowing they have an escaped mental patient among them. The film ...

Joshua Drake, the Zimperium zLabs researcher who revealed a bunch of bugs in Google's Android this week allowing a single multimedia text to hack 950 million phones, could be a lot richer than he is ...

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Stagefright is the name of a massive vulnerability that affects more than 950 million Android devices. So far, Google, Samsung and LG have all confirmed they will roll out monthly security patches.

Exploit code for the Android Stagefright vulnerability was made public, and researcher Joshua Drake hopes organizations will test Android systems and devices against the code. Joshua Drake, the ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. On July 27, 2015, news broke about Stagefright, a ...

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Google has released another patch for the Stagefright vulnerability after a security firm said the first one didn’t fix it. Hundreds of millions of Android devices are vulnerable to Stagefright. A ...

LAS VEGAS—Just before Black Hat, Zimperium researcher Josh Drake revealed an exploit based off a media tool in Android called Stagefright. This exploit could allow an attacker to take control of an ...

Around 950 million people around the world who use Android devices are at huge risk of being attacked by unscrupulous hackers who only need to send a single message to get control of their smartphones ...

The patch process for Android’s Stagefright vulnerability hasn’t gone quite as smoothly as Google hoped. Just eight days after Google, manufacturers, and carriers rushed out a fix for Stagefright, ...