{"id":175146,"date":"2016-08-08T07:34:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T05:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175146"},"modified":"2016-08-08T07:35:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T05:35:45","slug":"samsung-galaxy-s7-has-quadrooter-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/175146-samsung-galaxy-s7-has-quadrooter-vulnerability.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy S7 has Quadrooter vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four new vulnerabilities have been found in Android devices\u00a0that ship with a Qualcomm chip.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0&#8220;Quadrooter&#8221;\u00a0vulnerabilities allow an attacker to\u00a0take control of an affected smartphone or tablet, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/quadrooter-security-flaws-said-to-affect-over-900-million-android-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CNET<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If exploited, an attacker can gain root access, which gives access to an affected Android device, its data, and its hardware &#8211; including its camera and microphone,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>Quadrooter affects over 900 million devices, stated the report, including the:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nexus 5X<\/li>\n<li>Nexus 6P<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy S7<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge<\/li>\n<li>BlackBerry DTEK50<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google said a patch will be &#8220;widely released&#8221; in September.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on security<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/174598-gumtree-scams-what-to-watch-out-for-and-how-to-avoid-them.html\">Gumtree scams: what to watch out for and how to avoid them<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/175136-nigerian-scammers-infect-themselves-with-own-malware.html\">Nigerian scammers infect themselves with own malware<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four new vulnerabilities have been found in Android devices that ship with a Qualcomm chip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":155977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17934],"tags":[36,38446,645,34783],"class_list":["post-175146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-quadrooter","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-galaxy-s7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175146"}],"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=175146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175148,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175146\/revisions\/175148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}