A computer security researcher says he plans to release code Thursday that could be used to attack some versions of Google's Android phones over the Internet. The attack targets the browser in older, Android 2.1-and-earlier versions of the phones.. It is being disclosed Thursday at the HouSecCon conference in Houston by M.J. Keith, a security researcher with Alert Logic. Keith says he has written code that allows him to run a simple command line shell in Android when the victim visits a website that contains his attack code. The link for this article located at Network World is no longer available. . The recent findings disclosed during ByteSecure Conference exploit vulnerabilities in legacy iOS systems, enabling direct exploitations through compromised web pages.. Android Exploit, Web Attack, Browser Vulnerability, Security Research. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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