Pope Stagefright I

Encyclical

"Nuntius Sine Tactu". Joshua Drake of Zimperium showed that a crafted MMS could run code in Android's media library without the user touching anything, on around 950 million phones. The real problem was that those phones never got updates: from then on Google, Samsung and LG promised monthly security bulletins. The year taught that a patch which never reaches the device does not exist.

Saint page: Saint Stagefright, Who Had Stage Fright

Cardinals

Saint FREAK, Raiser of Export-Grade Crypto · Saint Logjam, Who Downgraded Diffie-Hellman · Saint VENOM, Poison in the Virtual Floppy