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It is the greatest security failure in history. It applies to more than 950 million users of smartphones with Android.
 

Employees Zimperium , engaged in monitoring the safety of mobile technology, drew attention to an error in module stagefright , responsible for the creation and playback Media .
 

The vulnerability makes it possible to break on someone else’s phone and take over it remote control , by use of the crafted news MMS. You can also do inclining the phone’s owner to plays to the video and even – Copy multimedia files.
 

The earnestness of the situation adds that the owner of the phone can be completely unconscious danger, nor the fact that his smartphone was installed malware . A hacker can do remotely , without the consent of the holder of the device, taking control of the camera , mic and space Device .
 

The threat applies to smartphones, which is installed Android Froyo or later versions. Although Android Lollipop contains the security patch that removes this error, but this edition system is currently only on 12% of devices .
 

Users of other versions of Android – and it is their worldwide almost billion – have therefore cause for concern.
 

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