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Many Android Users Susceptible To Plug-In Exploit -- And Many Of Them Have It
Ars Technica reports that a recently reported remote access vulnerability in Android is no longer just theoretical, but is being actively exploited. After more than 100,000 downloads of a scanning app from Check Point to evaluate users' risk from the attack, says Ars, In a blog post published today, Check Point researchers share a summary of that data—a majority (about 58 percent) of the Android devices scanned were vulnerable to the bug, with 15.84 percent actually having a vulnerable version of the remote access plug-in installed. The brand with the highest percentage of devices already carrying the vulnerable plug-in was LG—over 72 percent of LG devices scanned in the anonymized pool had a vulnerable version of the plug-in.
It doesn't bother to mention that the plugin in question is Team Viewer, which apparently comes pre-installed on some phones.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Really?, i can disable preinstalled crap on my Android phone, i can choose what to run and what not to, can you or are you limited to what your phone's manufacturer allows you to?
Pretty much any non-Google Android phone has crapware you can't get rid of, and it's been the source of many of the horrible security problems of recent months. Samsung's keyboard app, for example, which downloads unsigned files to anywhere on the device.