{"id":455,"date":"2016-08-09T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T17:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=455"},"modified":"2016-08-09T10:05:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T17:05:39","slug":"warning-over-900-million-android-phones-vulnerable-to-new-quadrooter-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/warning-over-900-million-android-phones-vulnerable-to-new-quadrooter-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning! Over 900 Million Android Phones Vulnerable to New &#8216;QuadRooter&#8217; Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download the free utility and see whether your phone needs patching. Verizon has patched only 1 of the 4 vulnerabilities. Shameful!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Android has Fallen! Yet another set of Android security vulnerabilities has been discovered in Qualcomm chipsets that affect more than 900 Million Android smartphones and tablets worldwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s even worse: Most of those affected Android devices will probably never be patched. Dubbed &#8220;Quadrooter,&#8221; the set of four vulnerabilities discovered in devices running Android Marshmallow and earlier that ship with Qualcomm chip could allow an attacker to gain root-level access to any Qualcomm device.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The chip, according to the latest statistics, is found in more than 900 Million Android tablets and smartphones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/08\/hack-android-phone.html\">Read more for a free utility that will test your phone&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/08\/hack-android-phone.html\">Warning! Over 900 Million Android Phones Vulnerable to New &#8216;QuadRooter&#8217; Attack<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download the free utility and see whether your phone needs patching. Verizon has patched only 1 of the 4 vulnerabilities. Shameful! Android has Fallen! Yet another set of Android security vulnerabilities has been discovered in Qualcomm chipsets that affect more than 900 Million Android smartphones and tablets worldwide. What&#8217;s even worse: Most of those affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-2","category-smart-phones","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}