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eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

I received a notification today on my Galaxy S for a firmware update......right in the middle of watching a Youtube video, which I thought was strange...so, I don't know if you guys have been watching the Korean news but there's an active hacking attack going on at the moment targeting Android phones.

I cancelled the update. Didn't know if it was genuine or not.

It's been on the main MBC news for 2 nights running......they're hoping to get your bank/credit card details, whatever.

Anyway, I don't feel safe installing from update prompts at the moment.

If anyone else got the same firmware update prompt on Thursday, August 5th...please tell us what happened with you.

jhicks99 · Joined: 04 Mar 2009 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I got it and update went smooth.

My friend at Samsung has told me there's a ton of tiny bugs and gremlins that are creeping into some Galaxy phones and Samsung is working like crazy to stamp them out - so I'd expect lots of updates in the near future. Speaking to an SK rep seems to confirm this as a high number of phones are being exchanged.

Slowmotion · Joined: 15 Aug 2009

Once again I tried to update and it rebooted

Then it says:

SKT device upgrade service
New device software canceled. If want upgrade, please call customer center (114 + call).