Android phones can be hacked with a simple text!!!!!!!It can take over your camera

Google owns Androids

The weaknesses reside in Stagefright, a media playback tool in Android. They are all “remote code execution” bugs, allowing malicious hackers to infiltrate devices and exfiltrate private data. All attackers would need to send out exploits would be mobile phone numbers, Drake noted. From there, they could send an exploit packaged in a Stagefright multimedia message (MMS), which would let them write code to the device and steal data from sections of the phone that can be reached with Stagefright’s permissions. That would allow for recording of audio and video, and snooping on photos stored in SD cards. Bluetooth would also be hackable via Stagefright.

[link to www.forbes.com]

wow!! good to know! scary.

Odd charges on cellphone statements

Unusual data access patterns

Rapid battery life failure

Apps downloaded from third-party stores

[link to www.darkreading.com]

I think I have been hacked but did not understand what had happened

No wonder they're dumping them.

Just bought a 4.3 droid for $9 (nine dollars)

The MMS attack vector is the scariest of all because it doesn’t require any interaction from the user; the phone just needs to receive a malicious message.

For example, the attacker could send the malicious MMS when the victim is sleeping and the phone’s ringer is silenced, Drake said. After exploitation the message can be deleted, so the victim will never even know that his phone was hacked, he said.

The researcher didn’t just find the vulnerabilities, but actually created the necessary patches and shared them with Google in April and early May. The company took the issues very seriously and applied the patches to its internal Android code base within 48 hours, he said.

That code gets shared in advance with device manufacturers that are in the Android partnership program, before it’s released publicly as part of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

Unfortunately, due to the generally slow pace of Android updates, over 95 percent of Android devices are still affected, Drake estimates.

[link to www.pcworld.com]

Android phone .... 60% are hacked or "leaking info" after just one week they off the box ...

This is the price of getting " cheap " stuff thinking is clever...

There is no "cheap" In IT, you get what you pay for.

most andriod rats have more bugs in them then a tree in a forest

Well i dont have a nasa cam

Get an iPhone.