Phone maker OnePlus is being blasted for leaving a developer debugging app on its handsets allowing phones to be rooted by an attacker with physical access to the device. UPDATE Chinese phone maker ...
The Kindle Fire, Amazon’s content-subsidized tablet, has been arriving to the delight of people all across the U.S. The heavily-skinned Gingerbread Android device has left many questions in the minds ...
Vendors are shipping Android devices with open port setups that leave countless products open to attack. The port, 5555, is at the heart of an Android feature called Android Debug Bridge (ADB). This ...
There are plenty Android phone users who make a habit of rooting their devices in order to gain more control over their device, gain access to system settings and files that would otherwise be ...
Update #2 (11/15) 14:09 EST: Qualcomm has reached out to Android Authority to clarify some details on the EngineerMode app. A Qualcomm spokesperson says: After an in-depth investigation, we have ...
After a gray hat developer pull the entrails of a root vulnerability in OnePlus OxygenOS phones, OnePlus and Qualcomm are responding. The big picture is that an OEM-side system app, EngineerMode, with ...
A Twitter user by the name "Elliot Alderson" has discovered a root backdoor in OnePlus devices—one that has apparently been shipping for years. OnePlus has been shipping a Qualcomm engineering APK (an ...
CyanogenMod 9 will not enable root access by default, now a user-configurable option CyanogenMod — one of the most popular alternative Android ROMs around — will no longer ship with root access ...
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