Attack on Spotify: Samsung Galaxy S2 update coming … – OptiMagazine

If on Samsung Galaxy S2 or whatever your Android device using the Spotify music service , beware . The version of the popular app for Google Play, at this time, is under attack hackers and the news will not please the large number of people who use a service account on a daily basis to listen to their favorite tunes.

As reported by Oskar Stål, CTO of Spotify , enterprise systems would be violated even if the attack, per se, it is quite unusual. It ‘been hit only one account and not a great deal of these as often happens in this type of operation. Even more so, it was not even removed from the ID password.

For this reason, anyone who owns a Samsung Galaxy S2, you will be asked to redo log to the app in the coming hours. Still, it is also coming a new update on Google Play which should eliminate any risk and protect data from users who use the service of music.

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what really happened? With many odds, some hackers have hatched a vulnerability s in the app compatible with the Samsung Galaxy S2 but also with older devices. The attack on a single account Could be regarded as a technical test of a transaction in more ambles scale. Too bad for hackers, however, because now the developers of the app certainly will try to run for cover cpon an update.

While waiting for the update arrives on Samsung Galaxy S2, a tip of all is to just download the app Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore present link m.spotify.com . Other channels may be unaudited and represent real sources of danger to personal data.

A reflection is in order. as far as Spotify app are useful and functional, their users are always at risk from hackers. The challenge for the future of the developers is to make these tools more and more secure and eliminate any risk of privacy.

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