The security flaws in Android, and not only, are not new, some with more risks to the user than others, it is right. Now arose another, that, according to a security company, puts you at the mercy data of more than one billion Android devices.
There is a flaw in the Linux kernel – based Android – that leaves 80 percent of the devices from Google are vulnerable to malicious code that can expose your data on the web. This problem affects about 1.4 billion devices equipped with Android.
The alert was given by the security company Lookout, responsible for an antivirus with the same name present in the world of Android applications. This failure on Android can lead to cybercriminals from hijacking the device and have access to many data users, among them, the user accounts and their passwords.
The security flaw this identified and, according to Lookout, the problem is in version 3.6 of the Linux kernel, the base that supports the mobile operating system of Google, since version 4.4, Android KitKat.
Despite this failure will not be easy to exploit – according to experts, you may want to stay alert and check for the arrival of possible updates to fix. The Google itself has already identified the problem, giving it the name "CVE-2016-5696". It is likely that in the next time there is a patch.
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