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04-05-2017, 07:02 AM
Samsung's Tizen OS for smart devices has devastating security holes, report says
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It's bad when a security researcher finds a critical security flaw in your software. But when he finds about 40—all of them critical? Well, then you might consider rewriting the entire thing from scratch.*
That's exactly what's happening to **ne other than Samsung and its Tizen operating system, which the company uses on a number of its devices, including phones, smartwatches, and smart TVs.*
SEE ALSO: Say hi to Samsung Bixby, the new voice assistant in the Galaxy S8 (http://mashable.com/2017/03/20/samsung-bixby/)
Israeli security researcher Amihai Neiderman laid out the numerous, previously unk**wn security flaws in Tizen in a report detailed at Kaspersky's Security Analyst Summit at St. Marteen (https://sas.kaspersky.com/) Monday. Neiderman claims all of the holes he found are critical and would allow ******s to control a Samsung device remotely.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/04/tizen-os-security-flaws/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Security Flaws (http://mashable.com/category/security-flaws/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Security (http://mashable.com/category/security/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Tizen (http://mashable.com/category/tizen/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Samsung (http://mashable.com/category/samsung/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tizen Os (http://mashable.com/category/tizen-os/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/sf4uyhDb6D4
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It's bad when a security researcher finds a critical security flaw in your software. But when he finds about 40—all of them critical? Well, then you might consider rewriting the entire thing from scratch.*
That's exactly what's happening to **ne other than Samsung and its Tizen operating system, which the company uses on a number of its devices, including phones, smartwatches, and smart TVs.*
SEE ALSO: Say hi to Samsung Bixby, the new voice assistant in the Galaxy S8 (http://mashable.com/2017/03/20/samsung-bixby/)
Israeli security researcher Amihai Neiderman laid out the numerous, previously unk**wn security flaws in Tizen in a report detailed at Kaspersky's Security Analyst Summit at St. Marteen (https://sas.kaspersky.com/) Monday. Neiderman claims all of the holes he found are critical and would allow ******s to control a Samsung device remotely.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/04/tizen-os-security-flaws/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Security Flaws (http://mashable.com/category/security-flaws/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Security (http://mashable.com/category/security/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Tizen (http://mashable.com/category/tizen/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Samsung (http://mashable.com/category/samsung/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tizen Os (http://mashable.com/category/tizen-os/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/sf4uyhDb6D4