{"id":160494,"date":"2016-04-05T08:07:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T06:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=160494"},"modified":"2016-04-05T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T06:10:28","slug":"androids-latest-security-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/160494-androids-latest-security-release.html","title":{"rendered":"Android&#8217;s latest security release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Android has released a security update to Nexus devices as part of its Android Security Bulletin Monthly Release process.<\/p>\n<p>The most severe of the issues addressed by the update is a security vulnerability that could enable remote code execution on an affected device through multiple methods &#8211; such as email, web browsing, and MMS &#8211; when processing media files.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been no reports of active customer exploitation or abuse of the other newly-reported issues,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>While Nexus devices are the first to receive the security updates, other manufacturers are likely to follow soon.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Android and security<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/160030-what-would-happen-if-the-fbi-tried-to-crack-an-android-smartphone.html\">What would happen if the FBI tried to crack an Android smartphone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/158985-new-stagefright-security-flaw-hits-millions-of-android-smartphones.html\">New Stagefright security flaw hits millions of Android smartphones<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android has released a security update to Nexus devices as part of its Android Security Bulletin Monthly Release process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,397,13171],"class_list":["post-160494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-android","tag-nexus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160494"}],"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=160494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160504,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160494\/revisions\/160504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}