QuadRooter is a new vulnerability affecting over 900 million Android devices

A new security risk has hit the Android ecosystem, in the form of a vulnerability called QuadRooter. The discovery and disclosure of the vulnerability was made by researchers at security firm Check Point, and all of the devices affected have something in common; they are powered by Qualcomm chipsets.

According to Check Point, QuadRooter is a set of four vulnerabilities, any of which an attacker can use to root an Android device, trick users into installing malicious apps unsuspectingly and escalate the security privileges of those apps.
The vulnerability currently affects over 900 million Qualcomm-powered Android devices, including the Blackberry DTEK50 which bears the title of World's most secure Android smartphone. Devices affected include the:

• Blackberry DTEK50
• Blackberry Priv
• Blackphone 1 & 2
• Google Nexus 5X, 6 & 6P
• HTC 10 and One M9
• Moto X (2016)
• Oneplus 3
• LG G5
• Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge

Check Point actually discovered the vulnerability back in April and informed Qualcomm, which released patches to OEMs of the affected devices. The patches were integrated into the July edition of the monthly Google Security Bulletin, but only three of the four flaws have been fixed, with the fourth to be fixed in September.
Check Point has promptly released an Android application in the Google Play Store that can check if your device is affected by the vulnerability or not. Download the app QuadRooter Scanner App here.

Perhaps if this had happened to iOS rather than Android and delayed till October, Check Point could have won $200,000 in the Apple Bug Bounty Program!.

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Restore Lost Files in Avast Antivirus Security Software

      If you have Avast, one of the worlds most popular Anti-virus Software running on your computer system, then you certainly must have come across a critical issue whereby this software starts to frequently detect viruses in your Files, and automatically moves them to the Antivirus Chest. The bad news about this is whether these files truly contains viruses or not, this software doesn't wanna know anymore. Making one feel frustrated.

     I had been through an exact situation using the new Avast version 7, i am not sure of why it happened, maybe it's because I updated the Virus Definitions or something, but I tell you, I felt quite bad, because I was loosing files that were relevant to me, I was confused at first, yet the fact remained that except I perform some operations in the Avast Security Software, there's was no way I was going to get these Files back.

Now, if you find yourself in the same situation like me, you should do what I did to get them Restored back to my PC.

Here's What I did:

• Launch the Avast Security Software, you can also find it by Clicking your Windows Start button >> All Programs, you'll see a list of all Programs installed on your PC, take a closer look at the list, you'll find it. The software opens displaying Summary with Updates...
•  Click MAINTENANCE

• Right underneath it, you find Virus Chest, click it

Here you'll find a list of all the files you lost that the Avast software had moved to Chest, simply select the file, right-click your mouse, you see an Option telling you to Restore it back to your System, click it, then your lost file(s) will be successfully recovered back to where it was before.

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