Systems Administrator a Dutch company has raised the alarm: the Nexus 4 and 5 of Google phones suffer a security vulnerability that can block or cause them to lose the internet connection
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of Google Nexus smartphones came hard in an extremely competitive world of mobile telephony sector. Despite the shortcomings in their distribution that have suffered users wanted to buy a device and could not due to lack of stock, this range has become a reference as expected by all. And as was expected also gradually will know some vulnerability .
been a systems administrator for the Dutch company Levi9 named Bogdan Alecu, who has raised his voice alarm. I did last Friday DefCamp security conference held in Bucharest.
Alecu explained that an attacker can get the Galaxy Nexus, the Nexus 4 or the Nexus 5 devices (where has confirmed this vulnerability exists) acting in an unusual manner after receiving a massive influx SMS Class 0 or Flash SMS messages.
If the messages are not deleted immediately, as are entering the phone cause overload problems . Alecu described incidents such as the loss of the internet connection, restarting the terminal or blocking of the terminal application.
One factor that works in favor of the attackers is that this type of message not activate an audio notification , but is configured for regular SMS. This makes the owners of smartphones only discover that they have received one if looking at phone.
As reported by PCWorldthe Alecu own reported this issue to Google and only got automated responses. I also got in touch with a person of Android security team, who assured her that solved the problem in version 4.3, but it did not happen. This led to decide to publish the bug.
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