Applications that open ports on Android smartphones are opening those phones to remote hacking, claims a team of researchers from the University of Michigan.
Open ports are a well-known threat vector on servers, where administrators deploy security software with the primary purpose of shutting down or alerting the owner every time an unauthorized port is opened, or someone tries to connect to it.
The last place you’d expect to have problems with open ports is your smartphone, mainly because server and mobile operating systems have very few in common.
In reality, the Android OS, which was based on an early version of the Linux kernel, has inherited the same problem.
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