Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol. Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company.
The National Security Agency, along with several U.S. allies, developed a covert plan to hack smartphones using Samsung and Google apps. The intelligence efforts –...