Google urges to install Android upgrade to smartphones because of DoS attacks

 Last week Google made an update into its Android mobile phone software after the reports that Android based mobile devise were hit by the denial of service attacks that exploited vulnerabilities in the operation system.

According to reports the first two bugs enable hackers to kick an Android phone off a mobile network and force a restart via a malformed SMS message. Fake text transmits a badly formatted WAP Push message that causes an exception on phones running the open source-based software, causing a restart.

Another flaw exploited by the cyber crooks is in Android's Dalvik API. A user is lured into downloading and running a malicious application that hooks into API that contains a security bug that means a system restart can be forced.

The company recommended the users to upgrade to Android 1.5 CBDxx, CRCxx and COCxx, as explained in an advisory by oCERT.