Samsung Galaxy Smartphones Might be Vulnerable to Malicious Wiping

Samsung Galaxy SII and SIII smartphones might be at a huge security risk when opening links with QR technology, NFC or push notifications, according to a new report.

ZDNet is reporting that Samsung devices with TouchWiz's user interface for Android could find their smartphones to be completely wiped clean when exposed to a malicious code embedded on a webpage.

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Security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar demonstrated at a security conference last week in Argentina the weaknesses built into Samsung's Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), which allows message communication to go from the phone to the applica…
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