Apple-Samsung vulnerability: landslide in the security system
The two giants of mobile telephony, to which over 40% of the world smartphone market belongs, are not invulnerable: Apple is Samsung return to the world news but not for new services or updates of the same, but for the invulnerability of their security systems, revealed within a few hours of each other, which they expose to hacker attacks thousands of users. Apple reported a landslide in Keychain, the system for managing passwords stored on iPhones, iPads and Mac computers; Samsung a 'bug' in the virtual keyboard.
Intrusions on the mobile devices of the two large multinationals: passwords at risk
Apple researchers, the same to identify it, used the landslide to test its danger. This breach, which has in common the Mac operating system (OS X) and that of the iPhone and iPad mobile devices (iOS), could open the door for hackers to use software to steal the passwords saved by users to access apps and sites to which they have registered.
According to computer scientists, the vulnerability would still be present in Apple's current operating systems.
On the other hand, Samsung's security flaw concerns SwiftKey, the virtual keyboard pre-installed on 600 million Korean smartphones, from the old Galaxy S3 to the new S6. According to the security firm NowSecure, hackers could exploit the vulnerability in the keyboard to remotely access phone resources such as GPS, camera and microphone, install malicious applications, intercept incoming and outgoing phone calls and messages.
After the news broke, Samsung was quick to let it be known that it will release a security update in a couple of days, and that it is already working with SwiftKey to avoid similar problems in the future.
