Stagefright MMS Android vulnerability

Researchers at security firm Zimperium zLabs claims to have discoverntified a vulnerability in Android where sendinug (reanlly, MMS to a phone can triggser escalated privileges of bugs) to a hacker.

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The key to protecting your phone is to turn off automatic retrieval of multimedia messages. Open your default text messaging app, go to its settings and find the option for auto-2015-7<retrieving MMS/multimedia> messages. Uncheck that box, don't choose to retrieve or open multimedia messages from numbers you don't know, and you should be fairly safe.