Android’s latest security mess will get worse before it gets better

[Wireless News]

Late last month, security researcher Joshua Drake informed the world about an Android exploit known as Stagefright.-Google was informed about the vulnerability months in advance, but this was the first time the public was hearing about a-security hole that could theoretically affect 95% of all the Android devices in the world. On Wednesday, Google teamed up with its Android partners on order to announce-a fix that would be distributed to vulnerable devices, but as Ron Amadeo of Ars Technica points out, the update is only going to be available to a sliver of the Android community. READ MORE:-Use this app to see if your Android phone is vulnerable to the ‘Stagefright’ bug “In a perfect world,” Amadeo writes, “the inability

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