Millions of smartphones likely have vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to easily take control of phones and extract private information without users ever knowing new research shows. What’s more, the hack can happen when a user does something as simple as plug a phone into an airport charging station. “It’s not just an unknown computer that’s a problem, but anything that you plug your USB cable into a charging station.

“It’s not just an unknown computer that’s a problem, but anything that you plug your USB cable into: a charging station, a kiosk … For all we know there could be something malicious on the other side injecting these commands to your phone,” said Kevin Butler, an associate professor in the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and a leader of the research team that uncovered the weaknesses…Read More