Joel Hruska reports:
New research from NowSecure indicates a critical flaw in Samsung handsets that’s left an estimated 600 million devices vulnerable to simple man-in-the-middle-style hacks. This isn’t the first time Samsung’s poor security practices have been in the news this year, but this mobile flaw dwarfs the Smart TV encryption issues we covered this spring. The problem, however, has the same root cause — nonexistent encryption practices and poor security measures.
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