LG Electronics has earned acceptance for its G3 flagship cell phone from the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), under the National Security Agency (NSA), in the US – playing ‘catch up’ for lost time with Samsung for what they achieved months prior.
Cell phones in the US oblige NIAP approval, with a specific end goal or classification to handle company records and for organizations that supply the government with their products.
LG talked up the G3’s security, including the ‘Knock Code’ and ‘Kill Switch’ features. Notwithstanding, their rival, Samsung – which had effectively secured the same support for the Galaxy S5 in July, followed up by pretty much all of their ‘Knox-empowered’ Galaxy devices getting the approval in October – effortlessly dominated their opponent.
The assessed configuration for the LG G3 smartphone includes 32GB of flash storage and 3GB of memory (RAM), and comes in the accompanying distinctive carrier versions:
LG G3 D850 (AT&T)
LG G3 VS985 (Verizon)
LG G3 LS990 (Sprint)
LG G3 D851 (T-Mobile).
The security programming rendition is ‘MDF v1.1 Release 1’.
The assessment was done as per the ‘Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme’ (CCEVS) process and plan. The criteria against which the LG G3 smartphone was judged are portrayed in the ‘Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation, Version 3.1 rev 4’. The assessment approach utilized by the assessment group to direct the assessment is the ‘Common Methodology for Information Technology Security Evaluation, Version 3.1 rev 4’. Gossamer Security Solutions discovered that the assessment certification level (EAL) for the item is ‘EAL 1’. The item, when conveyed and arranged as recognized in the ‘LG Electronics, Inc. G3 Administrator Guidance Form 1.0’, October 30, 2014 report, fulfills the majority of the security prerequisites expressed in the ‘LG Electronics Inc. G3 Smartphone (MDFPP11) Security Target, Version 1.0’, November 13, 2014. The undertaking experienced CCEVS Validator survey. The assessment was finished in November of 2014. Results of the assessment can be found in the ‘Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme Validation Report’ (Report#: CCEVS-VR-VID10593-2014) which was prepared by CCEVS.
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SOURCES: bestmobs
Any device with these control built in are just ripe for anyone to use. It’s not just the NSA which should be the reason to avoid putting this kind of stuff in. Once someone gets a copy of the master key all the doors are compromised at once.