Google Discover the 11 Security Gap on Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Premium Smartphone has a pride in itself as the Smartphone has good features of the best. But what would happen if we use flagship Smartphone appears to have a low level of security? This is what happened to the flagship Smartphone from Samsung, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.
Premium Smartphone has a pride in itself as the Smartphone has good features of the best. But what would happen if we use flagship Smartphone appears to have a low level of security? This is what happened to the flagship Smartphone from Samsung, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.
Engineers from Google has warned that the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge has 11 security holes are quite serious. This problem is due to Samsung to give the additional code, while Google's Android operating system itself has the characteristics of open source that allows the vendor to develop the operating system.
The addition of the features by vendors Android Smartphone is not always able to make the Smartphone more secure and feature-rich, as an example in this Edge Galaxy S6 who have problems with security because the vendor provide additional code. The vulnerability can be abused by hackers, like to take over a user's email, execute code in the kernel, it can even raise the level of privilege an application.
In an article published on the blog Google Project Zero, the vulnerability was disclosed by a Google researcher named Natalie Silvanovich. He said that the high level of vulnerability loopholes have been found in a curved screen device such as problems in wifi, Samsung email client application, even there are also some problems in the driver parsing and processing images.
Google itself has warned it and Samsung immediately take action patch the bug. Samsung fix the problem through OTA (Over the Air), but not all the problems have been resolved. There are still three bugs that have not been repaired by Samsung.
The company itself suggested to customers who use the Smartphone to continue to check and update the software launched by Samsung via OTA, so that all bugs can be patched. Google itself appreciates Samsung for immediate response in fixing the problem.