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 ...

Joshua Drake, the Zimperium zLabs researcher who revealed a bunch of bugs in Google's Android this week allowing a single multimedia text to hack 950 million phones, could be a lot richer than he is ...

Stagefright is the name of a massive vulnerability that affects more than 950 million Android devices. So far, Google, Samsung and LG have all confirmed they will roll out monthly security patches.

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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 ...

LAS VEGAS—Just before Black Hat, Zimperium researcher Josh Drake revealed an exploit based off a media tool in Android called Stagefright. This exploit could allow an attacker to take control of an ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.