Many Android Users Susceptible To Plug-In Exploit -- And Many Of Them Have It

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @04:27AM from the disheartening-news dept.

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.

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Re:story fails to answer important questions by 0123456 · 2015-08-25 06:02 · Score: 1, Interesting

You're wrong, i can disable pre-installed crap. Is it Andriod's fault that Samsung modifies the system?
Uh, I'm right. Just because you can disable preinstalled crap on your magic not-Google-but-not-locked-down Android phone, doesn't mean that most Android users can.
Again, I was pointing out that, if you buy an iPhone, the only preinstalled crap comes from Apple, and they can quickly ship a fix. If you buy Android, the preinstalled crap comes from Xonaxzuing Enterprises, Inc, and... you'll never get a fix.