Samsung working on a fix for major security issue with Galaxy phones and tablets

Many Samsung mobile phones are vulnerable to an exploit involving their keyboard and the company is taking steps to solve it

A few days back, security company NowSecure sent out details of a major vulnerability in a range of Samsung tablets and mobile phones. The exploit involved gaining access to the SwiftKey keyboard on the phone while it was connected to an unsecured Wi-Fi network. From there, with the system privileges afforded this keyboard, it was possible for an outside user to access many of the phones functions.

There's a full explanation here- which is very technical - but the shorthand is that it was very bad news for Samsung, especially once details on how to use the exploit were explained online. Now they've responded with news of a fix.