Do you believe the Bezos phone hack using video? Question for my fellow tech engineers , Can someone hack phone using a video ? |
Do you believe the Bezos phone hack using video? Question for my fellow tech engineers , Can someone hack phone using a video ? |
The simplest of these are called buffer overruns. If I tell the program on your phone that I'm going to send 1000 bytes of data, but I actually send 2000, then there's a chance the programmer made mistakes and the program will allocate space in memory for 1000 bytes of data, but actually copy all 2000 bytes into that space. The extra bytes will be written to memory that is outside the allocation, overwriting whatever was there. This is almost always exploitable, allowing me to include machine code as part of those 2000 bytes that I sent. The phone will end up running the code that I sent instead of the program. My code can then do anything that program could do.
Computers these days have a lot of mitigations and protections from these sorts of problems, but even so new exploitable bugs are discovered every day. Usually you don't hear about them, because the software vendor fixed them without telling anyone at all. Other times they put out a security update but don't give a lot of details. A few times a year there will be something that makes the news, but those are just the tip of the iceberg.