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Android Full-Disk Encryption Flaw May Have Been Previously Known to Google-July 11, 2016 |
A vulnerability exploiting full disk encryption of Qualcomm-based Android smartphones may have been disclosed to Google more than one year prior to the patch issued last May.
A vulnerability exploiting full disk encryption of Qualcomm-based Android smartphones may have been disclosed to Google up to one year prior to the patch issued last May.
In a blog post published last week, Security researcher Gal Beniamini outlined the process of breaking Android’s full disk encryption. He has discovered several issues in the implementation of Android’s full disk encryption that would allow an attacker to decrypt an Android device with a Qualcomm chip.