Samsung has reportedly fixed a flaw in one of its newest phones, the Galaxy S III, that allows attackers to remotely wipe the phone s contents. The patch addresses a flaw presented at the Ekoparty Security Conference in Argentina late last week that showed how easy it was to remotely reset an S III phone and apparently kill the phone’s SIM card. A researcher in the Security in Telecommunications department at the Technical University Berlin demonstrated an attack that exploited Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD)
Source: https://threatpost.com/samsung-fixes-remote-wipe-flaw-galaxy-s-iii-smartphones-092612/77052/