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Newly discovered exploit lets 3rd parties access and modify your personal data on Samsung smartphones ....

Samsung is not new to the world of vulnerabilities , just a few months ago , certain backdoors were found with the KNOX security system and a severe exploit was found with the design of the Exynos chipsets as well . however as Samsung continues to gain large portions of the smartphone market some vulnerabilities follow with it , and the recent one was found just yesterday

Our smartphones have two processors , one is the general purpose processor that we all fight about (Snapdragon , Exynos,Tegra ,AX...) but behind the layers of silicon you find the baseband processor , this handles the modem operations such as connecting to service provider networks and so on . but according to Replicant developers , the software running on this system has serious loopholes that lets 3rd parties access personal data without any party knowing what's going on

Over the course of their discovery ,Paul Kocialkowski and the team Replicant found out that 9 Samsung devices are affected by this vulnerability and that the Samsung -coded software running the baseband processor had direct access to the phones file storage which lets a 3rd party access personal files and modify its content over - the - air .

The current loophole exists on the Samsung Galaxy S3 , The Galaxy Note 2 and The Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 and Tab 2 7.0 and according to a Ars Technica interview , the loophole exists on some newer devices such as the Note 3 and the Galaxy S4 , hopefully Samsung will deliver some patch for the exploitin the coming weeks.


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