A serious security flaw exposes millions of phone users working on the system Google Android unpunished attacks on cybercriminals. Security experts because they found a serious vulnerability in the full disk encryption.
Full disk encryption in Android can be easily broken, thanks to the brute-force method. All through the whole series of vulnerabilities in the various components of the operating system. Worse, the wine is not on the side of Google and can be a serious problem with the removal of defects using a simple patch.
Full disk encryption (with English. Full Disk Encryption, FDE) is a technique that allows for the safe keeping of data on the phone. FDE is intended to protect sensitive data not only from hackers, but also protects them from access by device manufacturers and even government agencies. An example of action FDE is the recent dispute between Apple and the FBI access to data from the device terrorist who killed a dozen people at the end of 2015. In California. Dnae iPhone 5C were encrypted, and the key to them was not even Apple.
A similar situation, at least in theory, was to meet anyone who tried to break into devices with Android 5.0 or later. System based on PIN, password, or graphic pattern generates a key which should be the only possible way to get to the data on the device.
Unfortunately, Gal Benjamin, a specialist in security, who works for the Israeli government proved that phones with Android, especially those who work on chipsets Qualcommu are not properly secured. All through the way in which processors Quallcomu work with parts of the source code of Android. Interested in the technical details, please refer to the blog maintained by an expert.
Fortunately, Benjamin already applied to both Google and Qualcommu to remove the holes in the system. Representatives of Google announced the release of patches that have to fix a threat this year. Unfortunately, Benjamin says that is not enough, and you will also need to prepare the new processor by Qualcomm.
Source: www.neowin.net
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