How a Bug in an Obscure Chip Exposed a Billion Smartphones to Hackers

Posted by bob on Jul 29, 2017 6:03 AM EDT
Wired; By Andy Greenberg
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If you haven't updated your iPhone or Android device lately, do it now. Until very recent patches, a bug in a little-examined Wi-Fi chip would have allowed a hacker to invisibly hack into any one of a billion devices. Yes, billion with a b.

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