You might think that the alert is really limited since only Samsung Galaxy device users employed by the federal government are forced to update their Galaxy handset by August 28th or discontinue using their devices. However, there are some organizations that follow federal government guidelines. And there are probably many other corporations that should demand that their employees follow the federal government’s mandate. Millions of Galaxy smartphones have the flaw and all users should install the August security update on their Galaxy handsets ASAP.
The flaws that Samsung owners need to patch include CVE-2024-32896 and the even deadlier CVE-2024-29745. These vulnerabilities would allow attackers to take advantage of privilege escalation. Privilege escalation would allow an attacker to use an app to capture information that normally would not be available to the bad actor. That includes information related to work and personal information.
