Samsung backdoor | Telecom Consumer Discussion Forums

It would appear that Samsung are in hot water for a security hole that exists on all Samsung devices from the note 2 down to the original s2 including the nexus devices issues by Samsung under Googles brand. The issue appears to be related to the fact that Samsung for some unknown reason has included hardware specific instructions in the radio that controls cellular interaction between carrier in device that would allow read/write access to and from the device.

This is important in a security sense as in basic terms it would allow any carrier to push or pull any resources to or from the phone and the user would be entirely unaware of the issue as again it’s happening at the baseband level – in technical terms it’s happening outside of userland thus no prompt and as it happens of the radio cellular towers it would be incredibly difficult to monitor for.

Those running such devices are advised to keep an eye out for updates from Samsung coming soon to address said issue.