Major Security Flaw Discovered In The Galaxy S4 Cloud Backup Feature

  • 26 July 2014
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Mobile Crazy Apr 18th, 2014
 


 
Qihoo 360 Technology a Chinese security company recently announced a security flaw discovered by them in the cloud backup feature of the Samsung Galaxy S4. This flaw which could be used to send text messages to premium-rate services, or to fake incoming text messages for phishing purposes.
 
SMS Trojans are most likely to exploit the flaw, apparently the issue resides in the cloud backup feature that Samsung provides with the Galaxy S4 devices. According to Qihoo 360 Samsung has already been informed about the security flaw.
 
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They havent fixed this yet?
 
I thought this was found last year by Qihoo 360. Here is  an article
from last year.
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Well spotted, that was an old one. When I looked again at the date in mine it said April for this year.
But if it is not fixed by now it should be.
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Well spotted, that was an old one. When I looked again at the date in mine it said April for this year.
But if it is not fixed by now it should be.
I searched and can't find anything so far about it being fixed. I will see what I can find out from my contacts who still work in the industry. Still looking and if I find something, I will post it.

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