Samsung has launched its official Mobile Security Blog as a new way to let users know of security issues and new updates. The site was made public last week together with the first Samsung Android Security for this month.
If you may remember, Samsung made a commitment a few months ago by working on a new security update process needed to be in place. The standard is: carriers would push the update rather than directly from the manufacturer. Samsung believes there should be a shorting waiting time especially when it comes to mobile security updates. It wasn’t detailed then how Samsung would make the process faster and it’s here now: the Samsung Mobile Security Blog.
Well, the blog is just one. According to Samsung, the site will be the source for the latest Samsung Mobile Security notifications. This is one of the company’s ways to respond to privacy and security issues. Samsung has promised once again to bring monthly security updates on selected Samsung devices, specifically the latest Galaxy S series include the S6, S6 edge, S6 edge+, and S5. Some Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab models are also included: Note 4, Note Edge, Note 5, Tab S, and Tab S2.
Samsung is greatly encouraging device owners to get the updates for their phones and apps regularly. The monthly updates will bring security patches for issues the Android platform is currently experiencing. Google’s Android Security head Adrian Ludwig even shared the news and his excitement about Samsung rolling out the updates for the models supported.
On the Samsung Mobile Security Blog, the ‘Samsung Android Security Update’ will contain the most recent maintenance release and Google patches. The latest Bulletin Samsung posted includes 48 items contaning 29 CVE items. Samsung has also included 14 ‘Samsung Vulnerabilities and Exposures (SVE)’ items that will improve security.
The full list of items can be found on the update page on the blog. Some of the more important security patches against the following: Defects Fix for Code Review Result of Stagefright (SVE-2015-4722), Resurrecting the READ_LOGS permission (SVE-2015-2885), Samsung SBeam Image Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerability (SVE-2015-2858), and Information theft and screen theft attack for Galaxy S5 (SVE-2015-2846).
SOURCE: Samsung Mobile (1),(2), Adrian Ludwig
