OnePlus has responded to concerns over a Qualcomm diagnostic tool on its smartphones.<\/p>\n
An app called EngineerMode can be used by an attacker to gain system-level privileges to a device, if they have physical access to it.<\/p>\n
The potential backdoor was reported by a security researcher named\u00a0“Elliot Alderson”<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0– a character name from Mr. Robot.<\/p>\n The app comes standard on several devices, including the OnePlus 3, OnePlus 3T, and OnePlus 5.<\/p>\n OnePlus said it will remove the ability to gain root access from EngineerMode, but added that it is not a major security issue.<\/p>\n “While it can enable adb root which provides privileges for adb commands, it will not let third-party apps access full root privileges,” said OnePlus.<\/p>\n OnePlus has responded to concerns over a Qualcomm diagnostic tool on its smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":227889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17934],"tags":[47314,3524],"class_list":["post-237714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-smartphones","tag-oneplus","tag-qualcomm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237714"}],"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=237714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237780,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237714\/revisions\/237780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0FNB to sell OnePlus 5<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"