Stagefright: new Android vulnerability dubbed 'heartbleed for mobile'

An attacker can take over the vast majority of Android phones with just a text message, security researcher reports

A major security flaw in Android lets an attacker take control of a phone simply by sending a text message - and for the vast majority of Android users, there's no fix available yet.

Even the small number of people using Google's own line of Android phones, sold under the Nexus brand, are vulnerable to some of the effects of the bug, according to Joshua Drake, the researcher who discovered the flaw.