Saturday, September 29, 2012

Samsung Galaxy smartphones vulnerable to remote wipe assault?

Samsung Galaxy smartphones vulnerable to remote wipe assault?

If you own a select Samsung smartphone, be forewarned – a security researcher is concerned after claiming to have exposed a vulnerability in some Samsung handsets, potentially leaving them open to a remote wipe attack. According to Ravi Borgaonkar, he demonstrated the attack at the Ekoparty security conference, where he showed just how a hacker is able to direct the user to a webpage that contains malicious code, where a remote wipe assault might eventually cause untold factory reset nightmares for the smartphone's owner.

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