Your Android smartphone can be hacked with one message

[Kevin Lancaster]

Your Android smartphone can be hacked with one message

An Android vulnerability makes it possible for an attacker to hijack your phone and steal your information by sending you a simple message.

 

[uchoose]

Who uses MMS only criminals?

 

[Ho3n3r]

Who with a smartphone uses MMS?

Hackers...

 

[PsYTraNc3]

Who uses MMS only criminals?

Hardly anybody but this "The worst attacks require no user interaction. This means that an Android phone can be attacked by only knowing a user’s number, using remotely-executable code via a specially crafted media file delivered via MMS." is still a problem.

 

[Ho3n3r]

Hardly anybody but this "The worst attacks require no user interaction. This means that an Android phone can be attacked by only knowing a user’s number, using remotely-executable code via a specially crafted media file delivered via MMS." is still a problem.

Exactly. You don't need to ever send one to receive one.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Lovely

NOT

Can one disable the receiving of MMS completely?

 

[Rocket-Boy]

Lovely

NOT

Can one disable the receiving of MMS completely?

It used to be that MMS settings were separate from the internet APN, not sure if its still the case but you should be able to remove them to stop it working.

 

[Arthur]

I can just hear the chorus of "fail!" if that vuln had been in Windows Phone. Deafening silence from the choc fac fanz.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Can you not just remove the MMS APN? I never use MMS, it's useless to me.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

oh no;

many android will be dropped now for apple instead;

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

oh no;

many android will be dropped now for apple instead;

 

[PsYTraNc3]

Lovely

NOT

Can one disable the receiving of MMS completely?

With most phones you are able to turn off auto retrieval.
It will be easy then to check if an MMS is coming from a number you recognize before downloading it.

Other alternative is to copy your providers internet\MMS settings and leave out the MMS part.

 

[Necropolis]

Lovely

NOT

Can one disable the receiving of MMS completely?

You can set the phone to not automatically download MMS's

 

[MickZA]

Zimperium’s advanced Enterprise Mobile Threat Protection solution, zIPS, protects its enterprise customers from Stagefright vulnerability.

Hmm, I'm always suspicious when security companies identify threats and offer a solution at the same time.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Already removed MMS APN from my phone.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Already removed MMS APN from my phone.

meh, can't delete mine

S3 mini, GT-i8200...

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

meh, can't delete mine

S3 mini, GT-i8200...

Suckaa!

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Suckaa!

there must be a way probably...

edit : FWIW I can delete the MMS APN on my Huawei Mediapad tho...

one less device to worry about...

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

there must be a way probably...

What's your number? I'll just disable it remotely

 

[mercurial]

What's your number? I'll just disable it remotely

Flawless Victory!!! FATALITY!!!