New Qualcomm Security ‘Hole’ Puts Users At Risk Here we pass again with another security warning for customers of Android smartphones. This time, although, the difficulty isn’t malicious apps established from the Play Store, the issue is the phones themselves. Cyber powerhouse Check Point claims to have hacked into the TrustZone on certain Android gadgets—the “hardware-enforced isolation constructed into the CPU,” in which the maximum sensitive facts is held. Check Point hacked phones from Samsung, LG and Motorola—but the issue is wider, the vulnerability became found inside Qualcomm’s hardware that powers almost half of of all cell phones. LG Mobile Phone History So what exactly is the TrustZone? Yaniv Balmas, Check Point’s head of cyber studies, explains that “TrustZone holds all of your secrets and techniques—fingerprints, facial reputation, credit cards, passports, something secrets you could think about, this stuff are saved in TrustZone. Think of it as a secure ma...