Beware, if you have a Samsung Smartphone, you are wide open to any malicious hacker to screw with your keyboard, root your device and install anything they want on your phone:

https://threatpost.com/samsungs-swift-keyboard-update-mechanism-exposes-600m-devices/113348

Looks nasty

Read some conflicting infos about the severity/range of affected devices.

More sounds like only devices delivered to AT&T and Verizon.

Not anyway near 600 million.

Happens at open WiFi hotspots compromised by hackers.

http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/information-regarding-the-keyboard-security-issue-and-our-device-policy-update/

This includes the user and the hacker physically being on the same unprotected network while downloading a language update.

Do you frequently download language updates at compromised open WIFi hotspots?

I don't.

To me it sounds way overblown. A big hot air balloon.

Another ego booster for some security expert.

And no doubt people with Apple stuff are were sitting there all smug.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/06/17/distinct_security_flaws_hit_the_iphone_and_the_samsung_galaxy_in_the_same.html

As long as the malicious hacker doesn't instal ios I reckon I'll be OK.

As long as the malicious hacker doesn't instal ios I reckon I'll be OK.

So very true.

It would be like going back in time and living with the dinosaurs. Oh wait that is what the Apple users are doing already.