EPFL team finds dozens of Android flaws. Should we be worried?
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Usually, it’s big cybersecurity companies or small coding geniuses who discover vulnerabilities in phones. But this time, it was a team from EPFL that tracked down vulnerabilities in Android, the most widely used smartphone operating system. And the engineers multiplied the discoveries: At least 31 flaws were found in Google’s system, present in 71% of phones worldwide and 50% of Swiss mobile phones.
The findings were presented on Thursday, and should be taken seriously, according to Matthias Baer, who runs the HexHive lab at EPFL and conducts cybersecurity research: “The main risk is that hackers break into your system and have permanent access to your data, as long as you have the same phone. Your phone is no longer secure after that.”
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