Security News

Samsung on Tuesday unveiled a new security solution - composed of a secure element chip and security software - designed to enhance data protection on mobile devices. Samsung has described it as a "Standalone turnkey security solution" that provides protection for the booting process, isolated storage, mobile payments and other applications.

Samsung will launch a new standalone turnkey security chip to protect mobile devices, the company announced today. The chip, which has the said-once-never-forgotten name "S3FV9RR" - aka the Mobile SE Guardian 4 - is a follow-up to the dedicated security silicon baked into the Galaxy S20 smartphone series launched in February 2020.

Samsung will launch a new standalone turnkey security chip to protect mobile devices, the company announced today. The chip, which has the said-once-never-forgotten name "S3FV9RR" - aka the Mobile SE Guardian 4 - is a follow-up to the dedicated security silicon baked into the Galaxy S20 smartphone series launched in February 2020.

Samsung Electronics introduced a standalone turnkey security solution comprised of a Secure Element chip and enhanced security software that offers protection for tasks such as booting, isolated storage, mobile payment and other applications. Samsung's new security solution is an enhanced turnkey that follows the first-generation solution announced in February.

Samsung and South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom have debuted the Galaxy A Quantum 5G smartphone, sporting a quantum random number generation chipset. It's the first commercialization of quantum technology for mobile phones, and it will serve as a significant bellwether for full quantum encryption's chances of going mainstream.

Today I'm happy to release new research I've been working on for a while: 0-click RCE via MMS in all modern Samsung phones, due to numerous bugs in a little-known custom "Qmage" image codec supported by Skia on Samsung devices. The patch coincides with Android's monthly release of security fixes: all owners of devices running supported versions of Android will want to check for and install relevant updates in May's patch batch.

Samsung this week released its May 2020 set of security updates for Android smartphones, which includes a patch for a critical vulnerability impacting all of its devices since 2014. In addition to the fixes in the Android Security Bulletin - May 2020, the phone maker's updates patch 19 vulnerabilities specific to Samsung smartphones.

Zimperium, the global leader in mobile threat defense, announced zIPS with Samsung Knox, an extension to zIPS for Samsung devices, leveraging advanced on-device threat detection and remediation capabilities enabled by the Samsung Knox Platform. "The Knox Platform for Enterprise provides best-in-class multi-layer security on an Android device," said Jon Paterson, Chief Technology Officer at Zimperium.

Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced that it has begun mass producing the industry's first 512-gigabyte eUFS 3.1 for use in flagship smartphones. Delivering three times the write speed of the previous 512GB eUFS 3.0 mobile memory, Samsung's new eUFS 3.1 breaks the 1GB/s performance threshold in smartphone storage.

Samsung said Tuesday that a "Technical error" caused its website to display other customers' personal information. People who logged on were able to see someone else's name, phone number, address, email address and previous orders.