Always privacy and security were among the weaker elements of the mobile system Android. It turns out, however, that is even worse than we imagined.
Google is proud of the flexibility and adaptability of Android as a mobile platform. From the very outset, that this solution is open source and everything related to security and privacy will therefore be a problem – over the years appeared thousands of more or less dangerous viruses and malicious code that can be run without the user's knowledge. Interestingly, Qualcomm processors were to bring a greater level of security, and it turns out that even encryption associated with them is leaky … security researcher, Benjamin Gal discovered a large hole in the FDE system, which use the Android devices to activities – gap leaves open space for brute force attacks. What is more surprising, Benjamin discovered that the case is also related to the latest Qualcomm processors that seem to be more susceptible to this combination of errors and similar attacks about which I mentioned above. Most of all are endangered smartphones that have Android operating system version 5.0 or higher. FDE stores all data on the device and it is impossible to read them at the point where we do not have a special key – it is usually generated from the user's password. You may think that it is easy to break, but before we have another 256-bit unique ID, which is paired with the processor. The problem is that hackers could somehow get the key FDE ij edyne what is left to do is to try to get the password using brute force, which can take up to an hour – depending on zaaawansowania password. It is unknown if Google knows about the problem, the company itself did not give it any statement on the subject, as the matter is in the case of Qualcomm. There remains for us nothing else so as to wait for the patch, and hopefully she appeared quickly – otherwise, once again thousands of devices will falsely secure …
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