Poisoned wifi signals can take over all Android devices in range, no user intervention required
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2JAZC)
Vulnerabilities in the Broadcom system-on-a-chip that provides wifi for many Android devices mean that simply lighting up a malicious wifi access point can allow an attacker to compromise every vulnerable device in range, without the users having to take any action -- they don't have to try to connect to the malicious network. (more")