Researchers Hack Android Apps With Up TO 92 Percent Success Rate, Windows And iOS Also May Be Vulnerable
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August 22, 2014 10:26:39 AM
A flaw in the design of shared smartphone memory allows researchers to hack into Android apps with a success rate of up to 92 percent. The researchers claim the flaw could be used on Windows and iOS apps, too.
Researchers Hack Android Apps With Up TO 92 Percent Success Rate, Windows And iOS Also May Be Vulnerable : Read more
Researchers Hack Android Apps With Up TO 92 Percent Success Rate, Windows And iOS Also May Be Vulnerable : Read more
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therogerwilco
August 22, 2014 11:08:09 AM
pnosko
August 22, 2014 11:29:57 AM
>"By design, Android allows apps to be preempted or hijacked."
A little more detail here would be much appreciated.
>According to them, this flaw could also theoretically affect other operating systems such as Windows and iOS as well, but they haven’t attempted hacks on those systems yet.
Are we reading news with facts or discussing theory?
A little more detail here would be much appreciated.
>According to them, this flaw could also theoretically affect other operating systems such as Windows and iOS as well, but they haven’t attempted hacks on those systems yet.
Are we reading news with facts or discussing theory?
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pnosko
August 22, 2014 11:31:28 AM
Mintas Lanxor
August 22, 2014 12:21:46 PM
pnosko
August 22, 2014 1:08:45 PM
Mintas Lanxor said:
Anyone who uses the Internet for vital financial transactions or deposits their vital personal info on it deserves their possible misfortune caused by hacking.-
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moekal
August 22, 2014 1:11:26 PM
"The way they accomplish this is by having the user install a malware-infected app"
So the 92% rate mention is useless because it doesn't mean anything in terms of the general android population. Also, if a user install's your malware, and you can only retrieve 92% of them, that's funny.
"According to them, this flaw could also theoretically affect other operating systems such as Windows and iOS as well, but they haven’t attempted hacks on those systems yet."
a.k.a. "Anything's possible..."
Except for the fact that there is no "shared memory" in iOS apps, all apps are sandboxed. And any apps running malicious code that tries to "hack" its's way out of its memory block will be rejected in a second from app store approval. No side loading apps (unless jailbroken), no issue here.
Go home Tom Hardware, your drunk and pleading for clicks with a catchy title.
So the 92% rate mention is useless because it doesn't mean anything in terms of the general android population. Also, if a user install's your malware, and you can only retrieve 92% of them, that's funny.
"According to them, this flaw could also theoretically affect other operating systems such as Windows and iOS as well, but they haven’t attempted hacks on those systems yet."
a.k.a. "Anything's possible..."
Except for the fact that there is no "shared memory" in iOS apps, all apps are sandboxed. And any apps running malicious code that tries to "hack" its's way out of its memory block will be rejected in a second from app store approval. No side loading apps (unless jailbroken), no issue here.
Go home Tom Hardware, your drunk and pleading for clicks with a catchy title.
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August 22, 2014 5:23:17 PM
genz
August 24, 2014 9:44:03 AM
Quote:
"The way they accomplish this is by having the user install a malware-infected app"So the 92% rate mention is useless because it doesn't mean anything in terms of the general android population. Also, if a user install's your malware, and you can only retrieve 92% of them, that's funny.
"According to them, this flaw could also theoretically affect other operating systems such as Windows and iOS as well, but they haven’t attempted hacks on those systems yet."
a.k.a. "Anything's possible..."
Except for the fact that there is no "shared memory" in iOS apps, all apps are sandboxed. And any apps running malicious code that tries to "hack" its's way out of its memory block will be rejected in a second from app store approval. No side loading apps (unless jailbroken), no issue here.
Go home Tom Hardware, your drunk and pleading for clicks with a catchy title.
Android is sandboxed too
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Markla
August 25, 2014 12:43:58 AM
As far as I understand, this is more of a trojan than a true exploit, the malicious app sits in the background monitoring system or kernel memory usage and once it sees a pattern, assumes the system to be executing one of the apps mentioned, and pops up its own version of the UI and fools the user into keying in credentials
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Daniel Coca
August 25, 2014 4:39:11 AM
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