[Motherboard] Samsung left millions vulnerable to hackers - Domain renewal lapse

[The_Librarian]

Whoops.

Samsung, the most popular smartphone maker in the world, left millions of customers vulnerable to hackers after it let expire a domain that was used to control a stock app installed on older devices, security researchers say.

If you own an older Samsung smartphone, chances are you have a stock app designed to recommend other popular apps named S Suggest installed on it. The company says it discontinued S Suggest in 2014, and it recently let one of the domains used to control the app—ssuggest.com—expire, according to a security researcher who took over the domain.

By letting the domain expire, Samsung effectively gave anyone willing to register it a foothold inside millions of smartphones, and the power to push malicious apps on them, according to João Gouveia, the chief technology officer at Anubis Labs. Gouveia says he took over the domain Monday.

Link : https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...o-hackers-because-it-forgot-to-renew-a-domain

 

[The_Librarian]

So glad I'm not using a Sagsmug anymore.

 

[pinball wizard]

Even back in 2014, anyone who used s suggest deserves to be 'hacked'