News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Hackers can pwn your Android in 10 seconds, if you use Bing App in Starbucks.

Re:Hackers can pwn your Android in 10 seconds, if you use Bi... by dudus on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:35AM (#7119980)
Does this bug affect only android phones that are rooted?

It flashes saying that the bing App got root permission. I think that's disabled unless the phone was jailbroken.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Hackers can pwn your Android in 10 seconds, if you use Bi... by trustlook on Saturday January 25, 2014 @03:00AM (#7120223)
Correct. Even for the not rooted phones, attackers can send SMS, record audio or access SD card due to the permissions the target app applied. Also you may exploit some privilege escalation vulnerability on Android after you got a shell. It's phone-specific and app-specific though.
[ Parent | on HN ]