Researchers in Israel have found major security holes in millions of Samsung IoT devices, Televisions, Refrigerators, Washer and Dryers and any other device running Samsung in-house OS called Tizen. Tizen is Samsung equivalent to Android. Fourty so called zero-day, vulnerabilities have been found in the OS and reported to Samsung months ago with no further action taken by Samsung. Those 40 hacks will allow an attacker to take over your device. Could you imagine someone taking over your stove or oven and turning it on while no one is home? The researchers stated Tizen “may be the worst code I’ve ever seen.”
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Any type of zero day vulnerabilities are actually devastating for an organization.We can only hope the security holes are not out to public hackers to be exploited .Researchers did a great job in conveying the security gaps to samsung directly or the result would have been very acute.
Tizen was supposed to be an Android and iOS’s competitor started a few years ago. For some reason, the mobile OS did not catch on as Samsung hoped, so they decided to change the focus around Tizen. Long story short, they deployed Tizen to IoTs. I have not been paying much attention to Tizen, but I was always eager to learn about the quality of this Samsung’s operating system. A company in Samsung’s magnitude should and can do better to protect consumers. I understand Tizen has a lower profile than Android and iOS; however, it is not a good strategy to neglect Tizen’s security. Something people are using for stoves and ovens is quite serious matter.