Samsung’s ‘Find My Mobile’ system, which allows you to locate, lock, ring, and wipe your device should it’s stolen or lost, are often appropriated, potentially allowing a hacker to remotely lock the device, change its passcode, or wipe the device consistent with Mashable. The remote hack exploits a flaw in Samsung’s Find My Mobile system to enact denial-of-service attacks. If ‘Find My Mobile’ is enabled, it means hackers can lock the Samsung handset and alter its unlock code. The government’s own National Vulnerability Database explains that the hack is feasible because Samsung devices don’t validate the source of lock-code data through the network, making handsets from the South Korean manufacturer more vulnerable to this way of attack. It gives the exploit a severity score of seven .8 (or high). Slashgear warns Samsung users that, “although not enabled by default, once a user creates a Samsung account, which owners might do to urge access to Samsung-exclusive a
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