Loophole Viber for Android allows phone lock override

Loophole Viber for Android allows phone lock override

Detection of security experts about the vulnerability in Viber for Instant Messaging over the Internet, for Android, a loophole that enables strangers to overcome "phone lock" without the need for ID or PIN combination to open the lock.

Bkav, said company security gap that allows to bypass the "phone lock" on some phones operating system Android through the window of metastatic appearing new messages received via the application.

The company added that when you receive any new message via Viber popup window appear on your homepage, here you can click on the input box to show the keyboard and then close the phone, and when you send another message can simply press the button "back" to override the phone lock.

And developers "Viper" is updated to bridge that gap, especially after the spread on the Internet and the emergence of multiple videos to explain how to bypass the phone lock "" through these simple steps that don't need any skill at hacking or hacked phones.

Download the Viber between 50 million and 100 million users of Google PlayStation Store ", indicating the vulnerability of large numbers of users of the application around the world, that gap.

The Viber arguments already on the extent of the exploitation of the calls it especially after confirmation that the application is "founder Talmon Marco, is an Israeli-American developer.

The "Viper" had announced that more than 2 billion minutes and over 6 billion text messages sent each month, with an average of 10 million calls a day.