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Android Stagefright Bug Required 115 Patches, Millions Still At Risk (eweek.com)
eWeek reports that "hundreds of millions of users remain at risk" one year after Joshua Drake discovered the Stagefright Android flaw. Slashdot reader darthcamaro writes: A year ago, on July 27, 2015 news about the Android Stagefright flaw was first revealed with the initial reports claiming widespread impact with a billion users at risk. As it turns out, the impact of Stagefright has been more pervasive...over the last 12 months, Google has patched no less than 115 flaws in Stagefright and related Android media libraries. Joshua Drake, the researcher who first discovered the Stagefright flaw never expected it to go this far. "I expected shoring up the larger problem to take an extended and large effort, but I didn't expect it to be ongoing a year later."
Drake believes targeted attacks use Stagefright vulnerabilities on unpatched systems, but adds that Android's bug bounty program appears to be working, paying out $550,000 in its first year.
Drake believes targeted attacks use Stagefright vulnerabilities on unpatched systems, but adds that Android's bug bounty program appears to be working, paying out $550,000 in its first year.
As much as I really hate Sprint and think they're easily the worst carrier by a cubic lightyear, that's more likely to be a Samsung problem. Samsung is downright shameful when it comes to updates, and furthermore they're the single biggest reason why iPhone lovers and other pundits think Android is buggy and laggy. I owned a Galaxy Note 4, and after that I'll never buy another Samsung phone again.
Based upon this post alone I am scared of those phones: http://forum.xda-developers.co...
But I really don't have enough knowledge to know.