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Android Hacked Via NFC On the Samsung Galaxy S 3

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 20, 2012 @02:04AM from the use-barrier-methods dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an item from The Next Web: "Security researchers participating in the Mobile Pwn2Own contest at the EuSecWest Conference in Amsterdam [Wednesday] demonstrated how to hack Android through a Near Field Communication (NFC) vulnerability. The 0day exploit was developed by four MWR Labs employees (two in South Africa and two in the UK) for a Samsung Galaxy S 3 phone running Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Two separate security holes were leveraged to completely take over the device, and download all the data from it."

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So am I safe? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-20 02:08 · Score: 5, Funny

This was hacked via NFC. But I live in Pittsburgh, and the Steelers are in the AFC.
So I can assume I am safe?
1. Re:So am I safe? by davester666 · 2012-09-20 05:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  No. Your defense is weak.
  
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  Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Re:And... iOS6 by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-20 02:10 · Score: 5, Funny

You must be new here.
Re:And... iOS6 by TeRanEX · 2012-09-20 02:29 · Score: 5, Funny

At the same event, they also hacked iOS6. Just to give an unbiased view...
So apple can now sue Samsung because they copied the 'security issues'-feature from the iphone into the Galaxy?