Zimperium Releases Stagefright Detection Tool and Vulnerability Demo Video

Mark Wilson writes: We've already looked at the Stagefright vulnerability, discovered by Zimperium, and shown what can be done to deal with it. Affecting up to 95 percent of Android devices, the vulnerability has led to Google and Samsung announcing monthly security updates. Now the mobile security company has released additional details about how the exploit works. To help explain the vulnerability, a video has been produced which uses a Stagefright demonstration to illustrate it in action. Zimperium has also released an Android app that checks devices for the vulnerability.

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>Google and Samsung announcing monthly security updates

I call bullshit.

until they take security seriously (which means backporting fixes to old os's in phones) this is worse then bullshit. its acting like a real fix when, in fact, its stil business as usual. phones will not get updates if the vendor wants to force you to re-re-rebuy yet another phone.

when there is a push to keep selling you things that you already have, you will NOT get software updates or support.

the model is broken by design. apple has it mostly right (although they also actively try to force upgrades on hardware by EOLing perfectly good and working hw) but android/google fucked the chicken, here. they decided to make a monolithic system out of the non-monolithic linux base and there's no fixing this broken-by-design idea. vendors are enjoying their wild-west view of things and anything goes! consumer protection is a thing that we used to have 20+ yrs ago, but no one cares about us anymore.

looking to google to help secure things? HA! samsung? DOUBLE HA!

both are jokes when it comes to software QUALITY. such a shame, too, that such rich companies don't give time or energy to things that truly are important to users.