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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