Wednesday, August 5, 2015

David Longnecker's post on reducing the risk of StageFright

The content below was written by David Longnecker, who graciously gave me permission to post:

Zimperium just released details and POC code for the StageFright
vulnerabilities:

https://blog.zimperium.com/stagefright-vulnerability-details-stagefright-detector-tool-released/

I've put together a quick how-to for "friends and family" to disable
auto-retrieve of multimedia messages in the native Android Messages app,
and in Google Hangouts, here:

http://www.securityforrealpeople.com/2015/08/avoid-stagefright-by-turning-off-auto.html

It doesn't cover every scenario, but it at least protects against the 100%
unaided attack.

Regards,
David Longenecker

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