The smartphone hack is estimated to be the largest in history, affecting 950 million Android users, or about 95 percent of Android phones in use today.

The hack consists of basic steps like entering a long, arbitrary collection of characters into the phone’s Emergency Call dial pad and repeatedly pressing the camera shutter button.

A team of researchers from a German university have come up with a way of hacking an Android phone with the help of a refrigerator and a piece of software they call FROST, with predictably ...

A security expert, for instance, is now planning to show off how he can hack into Android phones using a small NFC (near-field communication) chip implanted in his hand.