Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Sep 2012 21:14 UTC, submitted by bowkota
On the same day I bought a brand new iMac and switched back to Mac (no joke!), and teased the employees at the Apple retailer with my Galaxy SII, Samsung goes around and pulls something idiotic like this. TouchWiz, Samsung's Android skin, has a very severe flaw which passes digits along from JavaScript (via their modified browser) to the modified dialler, allowing your device to be factory reset (!) by just visiting a link - via NFC, QR, or plain. This doesn't affect all Samsung devices, but those that are affected are all TouchWiz devices. This just proves once again that you should either buy Nexus, or make the switch to Cyanogenmod (or any of the other AOSP-based ROMs).
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They didn't pushed a *fix*, but a full upgrade to Android 4.0.4 or sooner, which already include the fix.
I'll bet that they didn't even knew that the issue existed on the first place and that only this upgrade comes with the fix. May Jelly Bean was not ready to broadcast, I'm pretty sure no official fix will be available yet.