Samsung is fairly praised for the frequency with which it issues security updates across its vast repertoire of devices. In addition, it often does so before Google itself. But he himself shipped more than 100 million devices with a nasty security flaw that could have allowed hackers to get sensitive information from them informace.
Researchers from the Israeli University of Tel Aviv came up with it. They found that several models of phones Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9, Galaxy S10, Galaxy S20 to Galaxy S21 did not store its cryptographic keys properly, allowing hackers to extract the stored ones informace, which of course could contain very sensitive data, typically passwords. The entire report, which is however written in a very technical way, describes how researchers bypassed security measures on Samsung devices and you can read it here.
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But one important question remains in the air: Should you be worried about this? The answer is no. This is primarily because the security issues themselves have already been patched by Samsung, as they were alerted to the issue as soon as it was discovered. The first patch began rolling out with the August 2021 security patch, and the subsequent vulnerability was addressed with a patch from October last year. However, if you have a Samsung phone that you haven't updated in a while, you'd better do so. Even if you own the one from the said series Galaxy S, or any other. Security patches simply prevent attackers from accessing your data.
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