Critical flaws in new smart phones
Major vulnerabilities have been found in many companies such as Android phones made by Samsung, Huawei, LG. Cybersecurity researchers have identified a critical flaw in the Android smartphones built by Samsung, Huawei, LG, and Sony, whereby a bad actor could potentially infiltrate a victim’s phone using a phony provisioning message. Mobile operators send out provisioning messages as SMS texts when they make internal changes to their systems, and the messages request user approval to change the device’s network settings. The vulnerability was disclosed to the smartphone makers in March this year. Forbes reported estimates that as many as 1.25 billion Android users could be at risk. In addition to network providers, large enterprises also make use of the provisioning message protocol, for instance to configure employee devices with the company’s email server. ZD Net reported that the researchers were able to send phony provisioning messages to smartphones made by t...