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Android devices are vulnerable to hijacks over Wi-Fi, fixed in Android's April security update

It's been revealed that some Broadcom chips allow rogue Wi-Fi signals to execute code of attacker's choosing. Google has fixed this in the April security update but it can take a while before devices receive it and some devices won't get the update at all.
 
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