StageFright is a 1987 Italian slasher film. It revolves around a group of stage actors rehearsing for a play about a mass murderer, not knowing they have an escaped mental patient among them. The film ...

Most hacker-related stories regarding Android are overdone with technopanic, but the newly discovered bug in Android’s multimedia playback tool Stagefright is one that has users more concerned than ...

The scare that the original Stagefright hack caused is back in a reboot called Stagefright 2.0. This new strain was discovered by Zimperium zLabs, the same folks who found the original vulnerability.

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. LAS VEGAS—Just before Black Hat, Zimperium researcher Josh ...

Joshua Drake, the Zimperium zLabs researcher who revealed a bunch of bugs in Google's Android this week allowing a single multimedia text to hack 950 million phones, could be a lot richer than he is ...

Google has released another patch for the Stagefright vulnerability after a security firm said the first one didn’t fix it. Hundreds of millions of Android devices are vulnerable to Stagefright. A ...

Frankly most people who get malware are asking for trouble. They open a suspicious file from a stranger, go to a skanky website, or download the movie or game that came out yesterday from BitTorrent.

Exploit code for the Android Stagefright vulnerability was made public, and researcher Joshua Drake hopes organizations will test Android systems and devices against the code. Joshua Drake, the ...

Researchers who identified a bug (really, a series of bugs) that puts some 950 million Android phones at risk of hacking called it "the mother of all Android vulnerabilities." No one has exploited the ...

Stagefright is a nasty potential problem for a huge majority of the World's Android users. Thomas Fox-Brewster covered it in detail in his article yesterday, but here in brief is how to prevent the ...

Critical security bug remains unpatched in the majority of the over 1bn devices in use, but Stagefright Detector checks to see if your phone is affected If you have an Android smartphone you are ...

The patch process for Android’s Stagefright vulnerability hasn’t gone quite as smoothly as Google hoped. Just eight days after Google, manufacturers, and carriers rushed out a fix for Stagefright, ...