Android phone 'wipeout' security flaw exposed

[Nathan Wootton]

A weakness that can cause all the data stored on Android smartphone handsets to be erased has been found.

Websites tricked users into activating malicious code by clicking on-screen phone numbers, Ravi Borgaonkar, from the Technical University Berlin, said.

No Android could tell the difference between actual phone numbers and USSD codes recognised by handsets as instructions to re-set or wipe its memory card, he wrote in a blog post.

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[ZeroDay]

Install: No Tel:URL to help avoid this attack.

 

[WinAndLinuxTutorials]

It has been solved with some phones in newer updates like the S3. ZeroDay also offered a good suggestion.

 

[McLovin]

Or have you phone not connected to the internet.