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Samsung Left Millions Vulnerable To Hackers Because It Forgot To Renew a Domain
An anonymous reader writes: Samsung cellphones used to have a stock app called S Suggest. The company apparently discontinued the app recently, and then forgot to renew a domain that was used to control it. This snafu left millions of smartphone users vulnerable to hackers who could've registered the domain and installed malicious apps on the phones.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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