Has Android? Then carefully walks around new threat – CA News

If you have Android then this news is for you. Was discovered a new threat to devices based on the Android operating system.

This failure is not even new, it was simply discovering a new way to take advantage of an existing flaw in Linux and is now the haunt users. The vulnerability of by the name of 'Dirty Cow' and can infect any version of the Android operating system.

Despite being based on a flaw that has existed since 2007, the Dirty Cow is, in fact, a technique of root devices. That according to the reports lets you overcome any limitation of security imposed by the manufacturers of the devices or the same operators, and so, even from a distance to obtain confidential data of the owner of the equipment.