{"id":92808,"date":"2017-08-04T07:48:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T07:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=92808"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:49:17","slug":"a-buggy-chip-leaves-billions-of-cell-phones-at-the-mercy-of-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-buggy-chip-leaves-billions-of-cell-phones-at-the-mercy-of-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"A buggy chip leaves billions of cell phones at the mercy of hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you haven\u2019t updated your <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xphone.TRS0&amp;_nkw=android\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Android<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> phone or iPhone lately, you should do so RIGHT NOW. A bug in the Wi-Fi chip lets hackers take over any of the billions of affected devices. This bug is resolved with the latest updates, so get those updates going\u00a0before reading on!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is surprising about finding a vulnerability of this size?<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Normally, Apple and Google invest millions of dollars to make sure their Operating Systems are as secure as possible. <strong>The problem is that they can\u2019t control for those parts produced by third-party companies<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The chip in question that&#8217;s causing so much trouble is a Broadcom module that helps the vast majority of current devices connect to Wi-Fi. It\u2019s not a chip created by Apple or Google. They never suspected that it was hiding such a dangerous bug until security researcher Nitay Artensein told\u00a0them about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Artenstein has named this bug Broadpwn. If you don\u2019t have an updated cell phone, a<strong> hacker within your Wi-Fi area could not only hack <\/strong>it,<strong> but also infect all nearby cell phones<\/strong>. Broadpwn has the potential to create the first Wi-Fi computer bug. A computer bug infects a computer and then spreads to connected PCs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though the latest updates resolve Broadpwn, this incident shows that Apple and Googl<strong>e need to be a lot more careful with the security of their cell phones<\/strong>. A similar bug could happen in another popular component of cell phones\u2026 and we might not realize it until it\u2019s too late.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don\u2019t forget to tell your friends to update their cell phones ASAP!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t updated your Android phone or iPhone lately, you should do so RIGHT NOW. A bug in the Wi-Fi chip lets hackers take over any of the billions of affected devices. This bug is resolved with the latest updates, so get those updates going\u00a0before reading on! What is surprising about finding a vulnerability &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-buggy-chip-leaves-billions-of-cell-phones-at-the-mercy-of-hackers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A buggy chip leaves billions of cell phones at the mercy of hackers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":92860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-92808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328652,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92808\/revisions\/328652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92808"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=92808"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=92808"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=92808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}