It is Xiaomis latest model Redmi 1S as security consultants warn.
Investigations are underway in several countries around how secure Chinese Xiaomis new mobile is. But according to F-Secure, the problems are fixed.
Last six months, security consultants warned mobile manufacturer Xiaomis past model Redmi 1S.
This after the cell phone had been discovered sending user data on servers in Beijing and additionally via unencrypted connections.
For example, said the Finnish security company F-Secure to Redmi-mobile’s contacts and SMS messages automatically sent to China.
And recently also warned the Indian Air Force their employees for security in Xiaomis mobiles. In addition, is also under investigation in both Singapore and Taiwan.
In Singapore discovered a mobile-buyers that he got lots of advertising calls for the purchase of the new Xiaomi mobile. As mobile traffic then logged by Singapore’s data inspection saw that it sent data to servers in China and even personal details covered.
Xiaomi itself states that the vulnerability is due to a failure, that is, on an incorrect setting of their cloud service. Even mobile buyers who opted not to join the cloud service had become attached to it. Missen should now have been fixed.
– They had problems but have fixed them now, said Mikko Hypponen, head of research at F-Secure New Technology.
F-Sucure have made new tests of Redmi 1S and has, according to Mikko Hypponen, today no complaints on the phone .
Xiaomi tripled in the third quarter of this year sales of smartphones. It therefore took third place on the list of the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer after Samsung and Apple.
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