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Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2015

More than 600 million Samsung S devices open to hack

More than 600 million Samsung S devices could be opened to cyber attacks because a flaw in the validation of language pack updates for the SwiftKey keyboard. More than 600 million Samsung smartphones could be opened to cyber attack due to the presence of a security flaw in the validation of the Swiftkey language pack updates. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 22, 2015

Samsung smartTVs don’t encrypt voice and text data

Samsung smartTV send unencrypted voice recognition data and text information across the Internet without encrypt it, allowing hackers to capture them. A few days ago I was one of the first to publish the news about the Samsung privacy policy that reports smartTV are sending user voice data to third parties. “Samsung SmartTV transmits data […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2015

Samsung SmartTV models transmit voice, and more, to a third-party service

Samsung SmartTV transmits data to a third party, be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information. We have discussed several times about the privacy and security issues related to the Internet of Things devices, Smart meters and Smart TV are intelligent devices that could be exploited by hackers to collect our sensitive […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2014

NIST warns on Zero-Day flaw in Samsung FindMyMobile

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is warning of the presence of a Zero-Day flaw in the Samsung FindMyMobile service. The US-CERT/NIST is warning of the presence of a zero-day flaw that affects the Samsung FindMyMobile web service (CVE-2014-8346). The Samsung FindMyMobile implements several features that allow users to locate the lost device, to play an […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2014

Samsung Galaxy backdoor allows files access on the mobile’s storage

Replicant developers Kocialkowski has discovered a backdoor inside Samsung Galaxy which allows file access on the mobile’s storage. Android is the open source operating system most diffused, but being an open project, there are many customized versions that run on mobile devices. Almost every mobile phone manufacturer commercializes its devices with a version of the Android OS that […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2014

VPN vulnerability in Android devices allows intercept communications

Israeli Security researchers discovered an Android security flaw to bypass active VPN configurations and intercept secure communications. A new alleged flaw in Android mobile could harm user’s privacy over VPN. Israeli security researchers from the Ben Gurion University (BGU), the same that discovered a few weeks ago a vulnerability in the Samsung Knox platform, have […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2013

British blogger discovered LG Smart TV spying on users

British blogger revealed that his LG Smart TV collects and sends details about the owners’ viewing habits even if the users have activated a privacy setting. Exactly one year ago we discussed about the possibility to exploit a vulnerability in Samsung Smart TV to penetrate our domestic network to spy on us or to serve a malware. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2013

Pwn2Own 2013 Contest – Samsung Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5 0-day exploits

At last HP’s Pwn2Own 2013 contest hacking teams from Japan and China compromised iPhone 5 running iOS 6 and iOS 7 and a Samsung Galaxy S4. During the last HP’s Pwn2Own 2013 contest at Information Security Conference PacSec 2013 in Tokyo, two teams of Chinese and Japanese hackers demonstrated the exploitation of zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser for […]

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More than 600 million Samsung S devices open to hack

Samsung smartTVs don’t encrypt voice and text data

Samsung SmartTV models transmit voice, and more, to a third-party service

NIST warns on Zero-Day flaw in Samsung FindMyMobile

Samsung Galaxy backdoor allows files access on the mobile’s storage

VPN vulnerability in Android devices allows intercept communications

British blogger discovered LG Smart TV spying on users

Pwn2Own 2013 Contest – Samsung Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5 0-day exploits

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