Samsung Responds to Security Vulnerability in its Phones

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External News Details

“Proper configuration of mechanisms available within KNOX appears to be able to address the previously published issue,” said mobile security expert Patrick Traynor. “Samsung should strongly encourage all of their users to take advantage of those mechanisms to avoid this and other common security issues.” Source: Yahoo! News

 

Additional Information

Groups

College of Computing, School of Computer Science

Categories
Computer Science/Information Technology and Security, Digital Media and Entertainment
Keywords
Patrick Traynor; mobile; mobile security; mobile browsers; virus; information security
Status
  • Created By: Michaelanne Dye
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Jan 13, 2014 - 7:16am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:26pm