The division of Google Project Zero was created to highlight security vulnerabilities of some high-tech products. Smartphones, tablets or operating systems are screened and engineers from the Mountain View company are responsible for preventing the marks concerned in case of discovered vulnerabilities.
This time it is the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge which has borne the brunt of the tenacity of Google engineers. They have discovered 11 critical security vulnerabilities in less than a week on the latest smartphone from the Korean giant.
Many security vulnerabilities on the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
As wants the protocol established by the Project Zero, the manufacturer was immediately informed of these security problems and then had 90 days to announce a corrective patch or risk seeing the flaws revealed in the open.
The Korean giant has been very responsive since 8 of the 11 security vulnerabilities were corrected in a short time and fix patch released in late November for the last three. 8 These faults were described by Google on the blog of Project Zero.
Google says that Android is not involved
If the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is a smartphone that runs Android, Google has nevertheless insisted that the discoveries flaws did not affect its operating system in this case, but the overlay of the manufacturer.
The Google Project Zero is to origin of the discovery of many security flaws, but cringe at some competitors Mountain View. We remember the controversy between Google and Microsoft, the first city had decided to reveal to light only security vulnerabilities present on Windows 8.1 to a few hours of the release of a corrective patch. A controversy that forced Google to loosen its disclosure rules.
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