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Samsung Puts Millions of Phones at Risk After Forgetting to Renew Domain

June 16, 2017

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Samsung is exposing millions of devices to hackers simply because the company has apparently forgotten to renew a domain that some of its smartphones are trying to connect to in the background.

Specifically, Samsung smartphones launched in 2014 or before come with an app called S Suggest, whose purpose was to recommend apps to users based on the existing apps, searches, and other factors. The whole thing worked with the help of an Internet domain called ssuggest.com, with the app connecting to this domain to retrieve recommendation for each device.

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