The mini super computers in our pockets have become more than our life line of communication to our friends, families, work and social media. They have become our way to control our house, keep tabs on our kids, express ourselves in photo and video, pay bills and so much more. With Android devices being many people’s primary means of computing, it also means that they are a target for hackers to hijack your device, steal your information and run a muck. The most recent ‘scare’ was a called Android Stagefright. To the best of my understanding, Stagefright was a bug that would give control of your device over to a would be criminal by way of a simple MMS. While Google immediately got to work fixing the bug and sent out security updates to its manufacturing partners, we all know how long it can take from them, and the carriers, to get around to pushing the patch out.
Seems security updates and patches are things that us end users need more frequently than every couple of months, or when ever the next bit software update is finally available. Samsung is jumping on the threats much quicker than before and are looking to fast track those important security patches.
“With the recent security issues, we have been rethinking the approach to getting security updates to our devices in a more timely manner. Since software is constantly exploited in new ways, developing a fast response process to deliver security patches to our devices is critical to keep them protected. We believe that this new process will vastly improve the security of our devices and will aim to provide the best mobile experience possible for our users.†said Dong Jin Koh, Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile Research and Development Office, IT & Mobile Communications at Samsung Electronics.
Samsung is already in talks with its carrier partners around the globe to make sure their devices get the security updates as quickly as possible. We should hear about which devices on which carrier are pushing the updates and when relatively soon.
Source: Samsung Tomorrow
