iOS 10.3.1 resolves a security flaw of WiFi Broadcom chip. Android users are still at risk

With the update to iPhone OS 10.3.1, Apple settled a dangerous flaw in the security of Broadcom WiFi chip. There remain however still at risk all Android devices that use it.

We initially did not understand how Apple themselves publishing software updates. Immediately after the release of the final version 10.3 in fact, it started the first beta of iPhone OS 10.3.2, completely skipping 10.3.1.

The reason is explained today had already been identified this flaw (which was not up to Apple but from outside producer) and the company had already planned another update to resolve it. Gal Beniamini find it, a security researcher at Google working on Project Zero and this bug worked from the iPhone 5 to iPhone  7, allowing to carry out attacks using the WiFi connection.

Google Nexus Even using the same SoC Broadcom, for which an update has already arrived, but the same can not be said for the Samsung Galaxy. The Google team has reported the problem to Broadcom in December and the chips produced after this date are free of this bug but all those sold earlier require a software update that, to date, arrived only on iOS devices, the Nexus and Pixel, leaving uncovered the other.