Swift keyboard software vulnerability installed on 600 million Samsung devices.

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@John_E wrote:

This issue is being widely reported in the media. All carriers seem vulnerable for the S4, S5, S6 and S4 Mini devices. Samsung issued a patch early in the year but independant carrier release is unknown.

 

What is the status of AT&T's patch to fix this?

 

Thanks...

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and all I have read states that Samsung is lying thru there teeth. IF they knew about this the patch would have been included on the s6 when it shipped from the factory.

and samsung was

“Samsung takes emerging security threats very seriously. We are aware of the recent issue reported by several media outlets and are committed to providing the latest in mobile security. Samsung Knox has the capability to update the security policy of the phones, over-the-air, to invalidate any potential vulnerabilities caused by this issue. The security policy updates will begin rolling out in a few days. In addition to the security policy update, we are also working with Swiftkey to address potential risks going forward.”

from this story

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/06/17/about-all-this-600-million-samsung-owners-and-swiftkey-users-security-flaw-stuff/

Thanks for the information. Guess we'll have to wait for fixes and rollouts to come out.

You can always install / use the Google keyboard, and disable the Samsung one until the security update.