Alert! Bug Could Reset Android Phone

CALIFORNIA - Security experts warn of Android smartphone owners to update the phone software and be careful clicking on links that are not trusted. article, malicious links that can reset the phone back to factory pangaturan without warning.

Reporting from dailymail, Friday (09/28/2012), the researchers found out that a malicious hacker could create a web link that can do a wipe of the phone user. That is, all the files, personal information, photos, and music will be erased simply by swindle users to click on the web link.

Exploitation has been tested on a Samsung phone, but it also has the potential to work on handsets from other companies like HTC. Eskpolitasi was first announced by Ravi Borgaonkar from the Technische Universitat in Berlin.

Borgaonkar said web links can be embedded in a text message, clicked on a web browser, or scan using the tag "barcode" QR. When it announced its findings yesterday, Borgaonkar revealed that no owner of a Samsung product that can stop him.

However, the exploitation of these works only on some models. Samsung is known also has released security updates to block the issue.

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