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06-17-2015, 12:20 PM
http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ShXRtfm_IFRqeVTWTuX5VA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/gma/us.abcnews.go.com/GTY_samsung_ml_150617_16x9_992.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/samsung-galaxy-know-reported-security-risk-161504126--abc-news-tech.html)As many as 600 million Samsung Galaxy smartphones may have a software flaw allowing hackers to eavesdrop on phone calls and voicemail, read texts, turn on the microphone and view private photos, according to a new report from a security firm. Hackers are able to access the private information of some Galaxy S4, S5, and S6 users through a vulnerability in the devices' pre-installed SwiftKey keyboard predictive text technology, according to the report from U.S. based security firm NowSecure. Ryan Welton, a security researcher with NowSecure, wrote in a blog post that the company first notified Samsung in December 2014 of the flaw, along with the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) and Google's Android security team.
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