Recently, we brought you word that Samsung’s keyboard flaw had actually left more than 600 million devices open to attack, and hence, this would certainly fall under the major security bug segment in the overall scheme of things. Basically, keyboards on its Galaxy range of smartphones and tablets are vulnerable and open to such an attack, as hackers can execute code on the affected Samsung mobile devices. We’re glad that Samsung is up to speed where something this serious is concerned, where the company has announced that it will be issuing a fix to its mobile security policies over the course of the following days.
Samsung also expressed their opinion that this exploit will not offer too much of a threat, as the hacker will need to be on an unsecured network with your smartphone in the first place, not to mention that Samsung’s Knox security software does come with kernel protection in order to prevent malicious code from being executed, but having said that, this is not one backdoor that any company can and should ignore, but rather, it ought to be patched ASAP.
In order to ensure that your Samsung device is primed to receive the security update, go to Settings > Lock Screen and Security > Other Security Settings > Security policy updates, make sure the Automatic Updates option is toggled, and while you are at it, might as well click Check for updates in order to be sure that any new security policy updates which pop up will be downloaded. [Press Release]
