Hackers cracked the protection of Samsung smartphones (video)
State UNIVERSITY of standards and technology NIST has published the information that hackers can remotely lock and erase information in Samsung smartphones. This risk owners of the South Korean mobile phone manufacturer.
In most cases, when you initially set up the latest Samsung phone, the user is assumed to immediately configure the utility to search for and remote locking - Find My Mobile. With all this vulnerability in the service allows villains to remotely lock the device Samsung or even completely erase all data on it. This means that a significant proportion of owners gadgets Korean manufacturer is subject revelations of danger.
As he checked the security researcher NIST BaseT Mohamed, the application does not verify key information security, which can lead to the interception control device villains. In order to achieve the desired result it is enough to make a DoS attack that overloads the device network traffic when legitimate users cannot access the system resources provided.
The company Samsung has been notified about this vulnerability. While the South Koreans did not comment on the news of the researchers. Experts advise users to completely disable the service Find My Mobile.