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June 14, 2017 10:00 pm

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.

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