Samsung Galaxy S6, S5 and S4: discovered security flaw Wi-Fi – Macity (Blog)

Owners of Samsung Galaxy, S6, S5, S4 and S4 mini, attentive to the Wi-Fi networks and public updates: you could be the victim of a hack

Nowsecure discovered a significant security flaw that can affect all owners of the last three models of Samsung Galaxy, S6, S5 and S4, in addition to the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. The vulnerability, if exploited, could give attackers access to phone features, such as GPS, camera and microphone of your phone, in addition to intercept messages, phone calls and other user data, and to be able to install other applications without the knowledge of ‘user.

Despite the risk, the likelihood that users can be affected is quite low because it requires the presence of two actions is not particularly common among them. It in fact must first connect to a wi-fi public created appositamenteallo order to steal data users. The second condition is that the user is connected to that network wi-fi, it decides to perform an update of the languages ​​for the virtual keyboard.

The patch for this vulnerability should have already been released by Samsung to ‘ beginning of this year, but in some cases its update may depend directly by telephone operators. The advice is to stay away from wi-fi networks unknown to minimize the risk of running into some problems unpleasant, checking from time to time the availability of an update to the phone.