We already know that Android handset makers don’t always deliver security updates in a timely way – Google has only recently started issuing regular security updates for its own Nexus devices. But the number of unsecure Android devices out there is truly astonishing, according to research from the UK’s University of Cambridge – 87% of...

Remember Stagefright? It was a security hole, or more accurately a cluster of holes, in Android’s core media-handling library, known as libstagefright. The official name of the buggy library quickly morphed into the media-friendly moniker of the bugs themselves, Stagefright. In operating system terms, a “library” (usually known as a DLL, or dynamic link library,...

Google pushed out its first-ever monthly security update for Android in August, fixing the Stagefright vulnerability that an attacker could use to own your device with a malicious MMS message. Nexus devices got their September security update last week, fixing another eight vulnerabilities, including one that could allow an attacker to bypass the lockscreen and access...

The Android vulnerability known as Stagefright is back in the limelight. Stagefright is a bug, or more accurately a series of similar bugs, in an Android programming library called libstagefright. Libstagefright is part of the operating system that handles media files such as movies. If you receive an MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) message that links...