Google releases Stagefright megabug patch for phones

Samsung joins company in promising monthly security updates in order to prevent Android platform from falling behind fight against malware

Google and Samsung will release new security updates for Android phones every month, in an attempt to prevent the platform from falling behind in the fight against malware.

The two companies' announcements come in the wake of an embarrassing bug in Android's media handling framework, called Stagefright, which had been dubbed "Heartbleed for mobile" after the desktop virus of that name. Despite being warned about Stagefright in April, the vast majority of Android phones were weak to the vulnerability when security researcher Joshua Drake went public with it 90 days later.