San Francisco, Nov 25 (Ians) Google researchers have warned that millions of Android smartphones are prone to hacking due to a bug in one of the graphics processing units (Gpu) within the devices.
The tech giant’s Project Zero team said it had alerted the chip designer Arm about the Gpu bug, and the British chip designer had fixed those vulnerabilities.
However, smartphone manufacturers including Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo and Google “hadn’t deployed patches to fix the vulnerabilities as of earlier this week”, claimed the Project Zero team.
“The vulnerabilities discussed are fixed by the upstream vendor, but at the time of publication, these fixes have not yet made it downstream to affected Android devices. Devices with a Mali Gpu are currently vulnerable,” said Ian Beer of Project Zero
Google researchers reported five issues to Arm when they were discovered between June and July 2022.
Arm fixed the issues promptly in July...
The tech giant’s Project Zero team said it had alerted the chip designer Arm about the Gpu bug, and the British chip designer had fixed those vulnerabilities.
However, smartphone manufacturers including Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo and Google “hadn’t deployed patches to fix the vulnerabilities as of earlier this week”, claimed the Project Zero team.
“The vulnerabilities discussed are fixed by the upstream vendor, but at the time of publication, these fixes have not yet made it downstream to affected Android devices. Devices with a Mali Gpu are currently vulnerable,” said Ian Beer of Project Zero
Google researchers reported five issues to Arm when they were discovered between June and July 2022.
Arm fixed the issues promptly in July...
- 11/25/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Update: Apple has finally responded to a Google assertion of a massive security breach on iPhones, saying it created a “false impression of mass exploitation.”
Google asserted in August that iPhones suffered a massive security breach, with hackers placing so-called “monitoring implants” in an untold number of devices.
Apple is set to unveil a new set of iPhones in September.
Spokesman Fred Sainz said in an Apple statement that Google created a “false impression” on the scale of the problem. The security breach was a “narrowly focused” attack on “fewer than a dozen” websites related to the Uighur community of China.
“Google’s post, issued six months after iOS patches were released, creates the false impression of “mass exploitation…This was never the case.”
Earlier: Apple iPhones have apparently suffered a massive security breach, with hackers placing so-called “monitoring implants” in an untold number of devices.
The issue was discovered by Google security researchers,...
Google asserted in August that iPhones suffered a massive security breach, with hackers placing so-called “monitoring implants” in an untold number of devices.
Apple is set to unveil a new set of iPhones in September.
Spokesman Fred Sainz said in an Apple statement that Google created a “false impression” on the scale of the problem. The security breach was a “narrowly focused” attack on “fewer than a dozen” websites related to the Uighur community of China.
“Google’s post, issued six months after iOS patches were released, creates the false impression of “mass exploitation…This was never the case.”
Earlier: Apple iPhones have apparently suffered a massive security breach, with hackers placing so-called “monitoring implants” in an untold number of devices.
The issue was discovered by Google security researchers,...
- 9/7/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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