Malicious image could open security hole in Razr
If you use a Motorola Razr cell phone, don't accept JPEGs from strangers.
A vulnerability has been discovered in the phones that could allow a hacker to send a corrupt JPEG image via Multimedia Messaging Service that could be leveraged to run malicious code on the phone. However, you would have to accept the image for download before that could happen.
The specific flaw exists in the JPEG thumbprint component of the EXIF parser, according to an advisory released by security firm TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative on Tuesday.
"Although the possibility of this vulnerability occurring is very remote," Motorola has fixed the vulnerability in all new releases of the Razr and urges people with older devices to download the latest software from its Web site, the advisory said.
The vulnerability was reported to Motorola last June.
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor. 
Worst advise ever!!! You should be immediately fired, not only for this asinine comment but the many you write every single week. Just because an image comes from a friend doesn't mean it is not malware. Now, if one knows for an absolute fact that said friend took the picture so it can't be compromised, then perhaps a person will feel safe opening it. Then again maybe the person you think it is coming from really isn't that person and instead is some evildoer. Best bet is to verify it is a legitimate image and has no executable code in it, NO MATTER WHERE THE IMAGE CAME FROM..
What are your qualifications for writing at an allegedly tech news site? You know how to turn on a computer and use word? Inexcusable ignorance.
In other words...
SHUT UP, YOU ABSOLUTE WASTE OF SPACE.
Is it just me or is this guy is getting more and more annoyingly stupid every day?
As usual you show your total ignorance. Cell phone? Computer? A razr is a computer dumb ass! Seriously, you have shown absolutely no computer knowledge and the statement made was ludicrious on its face and displays total ignorance.
How am I a waste of space when you don't understand computers even at a rudimentary level. That you would defend inorance is not suprising since you revel in your ignorance.
Are you really this stupid? You download the file to a computer and check it. Seriously, you couldn't figure that out? You are a waste of oxygen *******.
Worst advise ever!!! You should be immediately fired, not only for this asinine comment but the many you write every single week. Just because an image comes from a friend doesn't mean it is not malware. Now, if one knows for an absolute fact that said friend took the picture so it can't be compromised, then perhaps a person will feel safe opening it. Then again maybe the person you think it is coming from really isn't that person and instead is some evildoer. Best bet is to verify it is a legitimate image and has no executable code in it, NO MATTER WHERE THE IMAGE CAME FROM..
What are your qualifications for writing at an allegedly tech news site? You know how to turn on a computer and use word? Inexcusable ignorance.
Worst advise ever!!! You should be immediately fired, not only for this asinine comment but the many you write every single week. Just because an image comes from a friend doesn't mean it is not malware. Now, if one knows for an absolute fact that said friend took the picture so it can't be compromised, then perhaps a person will feel safe opening it. Then again maybe the person you think it is coming from really isn't that person and instead is some evildoer. Best bet is to verify it is a legitimate image and has no executable code in it, NO MATTER WHERE THE IMAGE CAME FROM..
What are your qualifications for writing at an allegedly tech news site? You know how to turn on a computer and use word? Inexcusable ignorance.
Worst advise ever!!! You should be immediately fired, not only for this asinine comment but the many you write every single week. Just because an image comes from a friend doesn't mean it is not malware. Now, if one knows for an absolute fact that said friend took the picture so it can't be compromised, then perhaps a person will feel safe opening it. Then again maybe the person you think it is coming from really isn't that person and instead is some evildoer. Best bet is to verify it is a legitimate image and has no executable code in it, NO MATTER WHERE THE IMAGE CAME FROM..
What are your qualifications for writing at an allegedly tech news site? You know how to turn on a computer and use word? Inexcusable ignorance.
I guess in the world you live in where your opinions are fed to you from the MS marketing department that makes some sort of sense.
You, Vegetable Head, and Elinor are the reason why so much malware gets spread. Ignorance is the prime cause of getting infected. You three are exhibit A in the argument that people should not use any sort of networked computing devices without a license.
- by benjaminstraight July 24, 2008 3:36 PM PDT
- Wow. Lucky I caught this.
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