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Poisoned wifi signals can take over all Android devices in range, no user intervention required
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Vulnerabilities in the Broadcom system-on-a-chip that provides wifi for many Android devices mean that simply lighting up a malicious wifi access point can allow an attacker to compromise every vulnerable device in range, without the users having to ...
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