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Android Hacked Via NFC On the Samsung Galaxy S 3

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:So am I safe? by Deekin_Scalesinger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You are safe from winning the Super Bowl this year, yes. Go Eagles!

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    "As the intrepid kobold companion continues his journey, he begins to wonder... if priests raises dead, why anybody die?