Warning: Crazy new Android security flaw can render your phone completely lifeless

[Wireless News]

Another day, another Android vulnerability. Just days after researchers-disclosed an MMS-based Android vulnerability that potentially puts 950 million Android devices at risk, a different-group of researchers have come forward with yet another Android-based security exploit. The latest Android vulnerability affects more than half of all Android devices in circulation today and has the potential to render handsets completely inert, which is to say infected phones cannot make calls or receive any other type of notification. What’s more, the screen itself may become lifeless, effectively turning Android phones into expensive screen savers. DON’T MISS:-5 awful Windows 8 problems that are fixed in Windows 10 The exploit, discovered by researchers at Trend Micro, can be enacted either via a malicious app or

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