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Tens of thousands of Android devices are leaving their debug port exposed

posted onJune 12, 2018
by l33tdawg
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Credit: android

Countless Android devices are leaving themselves open to attack after being shipped with a critical port left unsecured.

Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is a feature that allows developers to communicate with an Android device remotely, executing commands, and – if necessary – taking full remote control.

As its name suggests, the facility is tremendously useful when it comes to debugging a device and ironing out bugs. However, if not disabled on shipping devices it is open to abuse by criminal hackers. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont highlighted the danger in a blog post late last week:

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