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Researchers from the University of Graz in Austria have discovered that Samsung's Galaxy S7 still contains a major security flaw that allows the "Meltdown" vulnerability to be exploited, at least if your phone is not updated with the latest versions. latest security patches. Remember that this weakness allows hackers to read sensitive information that should never leave the central processing unit and then access secret data via the operating system.
Samsung reacted immediately and indicated that it was vital to carry out the latest updates:
āSamsung takes security very seriously and our products and services are designed with security as a priority. Since we were notified by Google, we promptly rolled out updates to resolve the issues in January 2022 and released additional fixes in May 2022 to further protect devices at the processor level [ā¦] We recommend everyone customers to update their devices with the latest software to ensure that their device is protected at an optimal levelā.
Researchers from the Austrian university have confirmed that the vulnerability is corrected with the installation of the latest patches. S7 owners be warned. Read also- Winter sales: which smartphone and which mobile plan for my teenager?

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95 stars
Test carried out on 15/03/2016