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Serious Security Shock For 100 Million Samsung Galaxy S8-S21 Smartphone Users

Posted on February 24, 2022February 24, 2022 By Davey Winder

A shocking 100 million flagship Samsung Galaxy smartphones are revealed to have been exposed to a double-whammy of high-severity vulnerabilities

I’ve written before about my patience running out with security updates taking too long to reach my Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G. Indeed, that’s why I eventually jumped ship to the iPhone. Now delayed updates, and in my case that delay was often a month or two, have unsurprisingly been revealed to be a lot more than just annoying. Users of Samsung smartphones including the S8, S9, S10, S20 and S21, have been warned that a high severity vulnerability could enable hackers to extract security keys and the highly sensitive data secured by them.

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