Earlier this week I talked at the annual HITB security conference in the Netherlands about some of my recent research into Android vulnerabilities. The topic of my talk was how performance counters in Android led to several serious vulnerabilities – including several that led to root access. This could allow an attacker to take control of a user’s device. I’d earlier disclosed some of these flaws beforehand, but withheld technical details until my talk.
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