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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 vulne...

Almost every phone in existence uses a SIM card, especially GSM-based devices. It turns out, that while SIM cards are encrypted, they can easily be breached with just a couple of text messages, and it apparently takes only a couple of minutes. The hack allows someone to listen in on calls and steal mobile data from a phone The hack consists of cloaking a text message so that it looks like it was sent from the carrier, and about a quarter of the time, an error message is sent back containing information about the SIM card that can be used to break into it. After that, another text can be sent that officially finishes the job, allowing hackers into your phone. Security researcher Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs discovered the exploit and says that up to 750 million handsets could be vulnerable to the hack. However, he notes that only SIM cards using older data encryption methods are at risk, while SIM cards using the newer Triple DES encryption are safe. Out of all the mob...