Don't worry. No one wants to hack you.
View attached image.
9 years ago
PermalinkComment has been collapsed.
Ye really, dont know much about phone stuff. Now i do, yay for me. Thanks Nb..
9 years ago
PermalinkComment has been collapsed.
Multimedia Messaging Service - actually handled by the same messenger client used for SMS texts.
I edited the original post a bit to make that more clear
9 years ago
PermalinkComment has been collapsed.
Displaying 1 to 3
Sign in through Steam to add a comment.
Turns out there's a security exploit that can be activated by opening a deliberately malformed MMS message, which kicks in the moment the MMS content is downloaded.
The fun part is that by default, Android phones are configured to download MMS content automatically, so just receiving an attack message is enough. In other words: if the hacker's got your number that would be enough to get malware on you phone.
Easy stopgap:
Open the settings of your messenging (SMS/MMS) client, disable automatic downloading of MMS content. That'll give you the chance to check the message and delete it before the content download happens.
More details: http://www.androidcentral.com/stagefright-exploit-what-you-need-know
Comment has been collapsed.