Check if your Android Phone is Heartbleed Affected [Security Vulnerability Detector]
Calling yourself an active Internet user? you might not be one if you
haven’t heard about the latest bug in the Internet security, called
Heartbleed. We talked a lot about Heartbleed here,
but if you aren’t sure what this is all about, do check that article to
understand it better, and keep yourself safe from compromising your
account data.
In short, Heartbleed is a bug in the OpenSSL security which was
giving access to the hackers because there was an issue with the secret
keys which get compromised and available to the hackers, and these
secret keys are what would encrypt the traffic, including the names and
passwords and all the personal content of the users.
The research team which found this major bug, did make a tool
available for the users to check and understand whether a particular
website is affected by the bug or not. But this issue isn’t limited to
just the Internet, but is also seen on the devices which are using
particular versions of the OpenSSL security for the authentication and
security of the devices. There were some suggestions from the security
firms that staying offline and not playing around with your online
accounts would be a safe option for now, but you can’t stay away from
your Android device for long, right? Here’s an app which would at least
tell you if your phone has the security version which is affected by the
Heartbleed bug.
Heartbleed Detector is an app available for the Android devices, to
check if the version of OpenSSL in your device is affected by the
Heartbleed bug. There is a certain behavior which if enabled, could lead
to a problem to the security of the device and that too is checked by
the app.
The app doesn’t do anything else than that, and it doesn’t check the
individual apps for finding about the vulnerability, but you at least
would get an idea whether the phone has a security version running which
is at risk. And for now, there is no fix to this and if your device is
running that version of OpenSSL, you need to ensure that the risky
function is not turned on.
Download Heartbleed Detector for Android from Google Play Store – Link.
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