wraggster
September 20th, 2012, 23:40
Security researchers participating in the Mobile Pwn2Own contest at the EuSecWest Conference in Amsterdam [Wednesday] demonstrated how to hack Android through a Near Field Communication (NFC) vulnerability. The 0day exploit was developed by four MWR Labs employees (two in South Africa and two in the UK) for a Samsung Galaxy S 3 phone running Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Two separate security holes were leveraged to completely take over the device, and download all the data from it (http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/09/19/security-researchers-hack-android-via-nfc-samsung-galaxy-s-iii/).
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/09/20/1324228/android-hacked-via-nfc-on-the-samsung-galaxy-s-3
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/09/20/1324228/android-hacked-via-nfc-on-the-samsung-galaxy-s-3