Samsung's Tizen OS for smart devices has devastating security holes, report says
 

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.*

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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 Monday. Neiderman claims all of the holes he found are critical and would allow ******s to control a Samsung device remotely.* Read more...

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