HTC has acknowledged the part of company mobile phone that deal with the weak points by the requesting specific Android and thus the credentials that exposed these phones connected to a WiFi network security. This is so dangerous that will damage the customers’ privacy.
Researchers Chris Hess and Bret Jordan, Jordan found that the affected HTC mobile phone, and the application with Android.permission.ACCESS WIFI STATE permission to call WifiConfiguration toString and command to see the wireless network security certification.
If combined with android.permission.INTERNET privileges, a hacker can obtain the related and detailed information, and sent it to the remote server through the Internet.
HTC at January 31, published a report that the warning of the weak points exits to the customers on its support Web site: “HTC has developed a patch to fix a WiFi problem on the part of the HTC phone. Most cell phones has been received this patch through the regular update.
However, some phones will need to manually download on repairing in the next week to learn more information about this patch, if you need to update their phones to manually download.
The good news is that most of the HTC phone will automatically patch to fix this weak point, but some phones require the user to manually download the patch. HTC said that users should be in the next thoughtful official website for more details.
September 7, 2011, Hess and Jordan discovered the problem, and in the next few months with HTC and Google will search for reasons. The existence of this vulnerability requires the user to install specific software applications, It used to collect user information. The impact of this vulnerability is very small, the fact that such applications will not be popular, but a security risk does exist. But when we use our phone to download some applications on our phone, we should be careful.
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