Android Hacked Via NFC On the Samsung Galaxy S 3

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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Re:It's a good thing I don't go bumping/grinding

[Anonymous Coward]

Another S3 isn't a requirement, it was just demonstrated like that, you fucktard.