The U.S. government is telling certain Galaxy device users to update their phones by August 28th or stop using them.
You might recall that back in July, the U.S. government told Pixel users working for the federal government to update their phones before July 4th or stop using them. The issue was a software flaw cataloged as CVE-2024-32896 that the government said at the time «may be under limited, targeted exploitation.» Now, Samsung Galaxy phone owners working for the federal government are being given their own deadline to update their devices.
The update for the Galaxy phones contains a pair of bug fixes that will exterminate two nasty software vulnerabilities that Google says have been exploited in the real world. The government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the two CVE listings (one for each bug) to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.
