Bogdan Alecu system administrator has discovered a bug in Android aferta the entire family of smartphones Nexus (Nexus One, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus Nexus 4 and 5 ), which can be used to launch denial of service (DDOS) through SMS messaging or other services that require the terminal to restart at best, and leave it locked on the worst. Fortunately this can be solved with a third party application.
If you have a smartphone Nexus family you have to be careful if suddenly you begin to see how you SMS flood of unknown origin, or if someone starts sending you many messages followed through Whatsapp, Line or other courier Instant. This could cause a device reset, the radios will be disabled (automatically put on a plane to self protect mode), which failed messaging applications or even the terminal will remain locked.
Apparently Android devices other than the Nexus family are safe from this bug. However, being a problem for Google sells terminals (owns and, as you know, the Android operating system) is considered high severity, and Google has already stated that he is working on solving this problem, although They have given no estimated launch date upgrade that resolves.
Meanwhile, from PC World we recommend the application called Class0Firewall, which can be downloaded for free on Google Play and solve this problem (or rather prevents it).
Via PC World.
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