Tag: galaxy s4
Samsung decides not to patch kernel vulnerabilities in non-Lollipop S4 devices
Softpedia reported on Samsung not patching kernel vulnerabilities in non-Lollipop S4 phones. According to Jonathan Salwan, one of QuarksLAB’s junior security researchers, Samsung took 3 months to acknowledge the bugs (November 2014), and only responded to QuarksLAB’s emails after the company went public with their research on September 21, 2015. “They just acknowledged the issues,…
Samsung tries to cover up Galaxy S4 catching fire
The Telegraph reports that Samsung tried to cover up an incident of the Samsung Galaxy S4 catching fire. The owner of the phone contacted Samsung regarding the fire. Instead of looking into the matter, they asked the owner to prove that the phone caught fire. The owner recorded a video showing the damage to the…