{"id":138910,"date":"2015-09-17T09:08:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T07:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=138910"},"modified":"2015-09-17T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T07:10:09","slug":"massive-android-security-vulnerability-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/138910-massive-android-security-vulnerability-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"Massive Android security vulnerability revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Android vulnerability has been discovered\u00a0by the University of Texas. It allows an attacker to bypass a smartphone lockscreen and gain access to the device.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability exists in Android 5.x, before 5.1.1 build LMY48M.<\/p>\n<p>By \u201cmanipulating a sufficiently large string in the password field when the camera app is active&#8221;, an attacker can destabilise the lockscreen &#8211; causing it to crash to the home screen.<\/p>\n<p>After this is done, an attacker can\u00a0gain access to the device.<\/p>\n<p>To execute the attack, the attacker must have physical access to the device and the user must have a password set. Pattern configurations do not appear to be exploitable.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J-pFCXEqB7A\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Full details about the<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.utexas.edu\/iso\/2015\/09\/15\/android-5-lockscreen-bypass\/\" target=\"_blank\"> vulnerability are available here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Android<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/134564-massive-android-vulnerability-means-hackers-can-take-over-your-phone.html\">Massive Android vulnerability means hackers can take over your phone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/138336-google-launches-android-pay.html\"><strong>Google launches Android Pay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/136942-android-wear-devices-now-work-with-iphones.html\">Android Wear devices now work with iPhones<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Android vulnerability has been discovered, which allows an attacker to bypass a smartphone lockscreen and gain access to the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,397,32912],"class_list":["post-138910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-android","tag-university-of-texas-at-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138926,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138910\/revisions\/138926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}