StageFright is a 1987 Italian slasher film. It revolves around a group of stage actors rehearsing for a play about a mass murderer, not knowing they have an escaped mental patient among them. The film ...

Exploit code for the Android Stagefright vulnerability was made public, and researcher Joshua Drake hopes organizations will test Android systems and devices against the code. Joshua Drake, the ...

Google has released another patch for the Stagefright vulnerability after a security firm said the first one didn’t fix it. Hundreds of millions of Android devices are vulnerable to Stagefright. A ...

Most hacker-related stories regarding Android are overdone with technopanic, but the newly discovered bug in Android’s multimedia playback tool Stagefright is one that has users more concerned than ...

Researchers who identified a bug (really, a series of bugs) that puts some 950 million Android phones at risk of hacking called it "the mother of all Android vulnerabilities." No one has exploited the ...

Researchers have uncovered a security bug leaving 95% of Android smartphone and tablet users open to attack. Zimperium zLabs vice president of platform research and exploitation Joshua J. Drake said ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. LAS VEGAS—Just before Black Hat, Zimperium researcher Josh ...

Frankly most people who get malware are asking for trouble. They open a suspicious file from a stranger, go to a skanky website, or download the movie or game that came out yesterday from BitTorrent.

Around 950 million people around the world who use Android devices are at huge risk of being attacked by unscrupulous hackers who only need to send a single message to get control of their smartphones ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. On July 27, 2015, news broke about Stagefright, a ...

The patch process for Android’s Stagefright vulnerability hasn’t gone quite as smoothly as Google hoped. Just eight days after Google, manufacturers, and carriers rushed out a fix for Stagefright, ...

If you're following Android at all, then this week you will have heard of the Stagefright exploit. It reads like a threat from a Mission Impossible movie - nineteen out of twenty Android devices are ...