Researcher To Release Web-Based Android Attack

CWmike writes "A computer security researcher says he plans to release code Thursday that could be used to attack some versions of Google's Android phones over the Internet. The attack targets the browser in older, Android 2.1-and-earlier versions of the phones. It is being disclosed Thursday at the HouSecCon conference by M.J. Keith, a security researcher with Alert Logic. Keith says he has written code that allows him to run a simple command line shell in Android (video) when the victim visits a website that contains his attack code. The bug used in Keith's attack lies in the WebKit browser engine used by Android. Google said it knows about the vulnerability. 'We're aware of an issue in WebKit that could potentially impact only old versions of the Android browser,' Google spokesman Jay Nancarrow confirmed in an e-mail. 'The issue does not affect Android 2.2 or later versions.' Version 2.2 runs on 36.2 percent of Android phones, Google says"

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WhatTheFuck

[Anonymous Coward]

Where is Homeland Security and their KisterKops the Transportation Security Agency?

Really! What we need, now that the Republicans have taken control of the US Federal Government away from Perv. Obama is to dial-up a USAF thermonuclear bombing run on DHS in DC, then dial-up FBI to give Obama an arscenic enema to get the walking-dead fucker out of the way.

In the mean time GWB gets a letter bomb wrapped in a condom. See the lushous dildo he will put it in his mouth (Freudian Suck).

Re:WhatTheFuck

[Anonymous Coward]

Barack Hussein Obama is the love child of Strom Thurmond and Shaquita OngogoBobo. He enjoys protected status in the United Soviet States of Amerika.

The U.S. Military and the DHS are pumpin' out litters by the six-pack. The U.S.S.A. is a nation of goddamn swine. We should make a satrical cartoon movie in the spirit of Team America that's less cute and more infuriating. Americans will be portrayed as loud, greedy, impatient swine driving oversized vehicles. Their apartments will be riddled with piglets, empty pizza boxes and McDonald's bags, and pig shit. A touching musical moment could be when Sergeant swine(back from his first tour) and his 20 year old pink-trash bride decide to have another litter right before he goes back to war. The Americans can squeal and be comically splattered into ham and bacon when they are asploded by the Arabs' roadside bombs. They could also be seen shitting and peeing gratuitously onto foreign lands, a fetid symbol of the primitive territorial urges of their colonialism. And lots of God, on both sides, to show their redeeming qualities.

The Arabs would be portrayed as simultaneously mean but cowardly dogs. The Arab-dogs will go into closets or otherwise off-screen when they mate, sometimes with puppies. That will symbolize their bigamous, pedophilic, sexually repressive society of savagery. Of course the attack dogs would be portrayed as being emaciated and at wit's end, bowing in unison to the fat mosque dog ("Allahu Arf-Arf!")which is later seen cocktail-partying and shaking hands with America's fat-pig leadership, just like when Bin Laden shook the CIA's hands after being granted safe passage to Pakistan on 9/11.

Re:WhatTheFuck

[Anonymous Coward]

yep. Barack Obama's pervert TSA goons will molest children and grope your cock and balls. High school meathead dropouts and other degenerates finger-banging women for national security. How many terrorists have they caught?

And don't forget about Qualitative easing" aka printing money aka 10+% inflation..

Re:The Response MichaelKristopeit Deserves

[MichaelKristopeit161]

i am not hiding.

i am at 4513 brittany ct. in eau claire, wi.

you are cowering.

what specifically makes you cower?

what makes you believe anyone couldn't hat their own kind? what else is there to that? who told you that?

you're an idiot.

Re:The Response MichaelKristopeit Deserves

[MichaelKristopeit162]

ur mum's face fucking douche bag, coward.

why do you cower? what are you afraid of?

you're completely pathetic.