Tips To Protect Against Vulnerability Stagefright

Droidever - Stagefright vulnerability it is indisputable that there has been a turning point for manufacturers that use the Android operating system. Both the potential weakness of more than 90% of handsets with Google's operating system along with high control that may allow these, has done that many companies have reacted and are rapidly, ending with the new firmwares to protect users devices.

An example is ads from companies like Google, Samsung, LG, and, also, Motorola. These have already indicated that they such solutions to the matter, and some of them, even that there will be monthly updates in order to solve security flaws to be found. But what happens while the new firmwares come or if a manufacturer does not launch the necessary updating of protection?

We will indicate the steps which should give to try to be the safest possible Stagefright does not affect your Android device, but always keeping in mind that this does not solve the existing security hole since prevention is used, using the existing options to increase the security of phones and tablets.


Recommendations

Most importantly, and this is not the first time that we tell it, he is being very cautious with the use that is given to the Android device. Stagefright "infects" through the use of MMS - at least for the moment - messages, so not to open them is one of the best protections that exist. Therefore, the recommendation is to make this even with the ones sent by acquaintances, since there are other ways to send an image, to give a few examples: WhatsApp, Hangouts, Telegram, etc.

The next thing is that, constantly, you review the updates that exist for your device. You will think that this is something obvious, at least in what refers to the terminal firmware, but we go a little further. To the use MMS messages, applications that are used to receive these it is very important that they are always the most current, since they may help or include corrections to stop Stagefright. An example of what we say is Google Messenger or Hangouts. Therefore, and as usual, be updated in general always is good for the Security section, and in this case, much more.

A very important step, if a MMS message, opens is the to be sure that there is no activated the automatic download that contains (or, if so, turn it off). So, what to do is open the application from the Android device and, in paragraph settings or configuration messages, access to Multimedia messages and proceed to check what you have said. This is always done you'll have control of what you can download or not.


How to tell if you are infected?

Because the truth is that there's an app in the store Play Store, created by Zimperium which offers guarantees of performance. The name of this is Stagefright Detection and, with it, you can know if the phone or Android tablets has been attacked and infected by the vulnerability.

If the result is positive, the ideal is to factory restore the terminal in question, since it is the most efficient form of the problem with Stagefright, but that Yes, inflation that has on the device will be lost (so it is important to make a backup copy of, for example, photos and music).