{"id":3885,"date":"2009-02-14T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Android-Bug-Exposed-Not-as-Bad-as-Feared"},"modified":"2009-02-14T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T19:24:05","slug":"android-bug-exposed-not-as-bad-as-feared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"Android Bug Exposed, Not as Bad as Feared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Charles Miller, principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, discovered a bug in the multimedia subsystem Android uses for its browser. Initially, Miller warned that the bug could be used to run arbitrary code in the phone\u2019s Web browser. As a result, he urged users to use the browser on the&nbsp;T-Mobile G1&nbsp;with caution until a patch&nbsp;could be deployed. Now, Miller is stating the vulnerability isn\u2019t as serious as he first thought: \u201cWhile the bug can be activated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Charles Miller, principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, discovered a bug in the multimedia subsystem Android uses for its browser. Initially, Miller warned that the bug could be used to run arbitrary code in the phone\u2019s Web browser. As a result, he urged users to use the browser on the&nbsp;T-Mobile G1&nbsp;with caution until a patch&nbsp;could be deployed. Now, Miller is stating the vulnerability isn\u2019t as serious as he first thought: \u201cWhile the bug can be activated <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3885\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}