How to tell if your Samsung phone is vulnerable to today's USSD hack

There's a lot of confusion as to exactly which Samsung phones are affected by today's big scary USSD vulnerability, which could cause some phones to factory reset themselves upon visiting a malicious web page. Some Galaxy S2 and S3-class phones are susceptible, others less so. In some cases it depends if you're running the latest firmware or not. In others, there's no patched firmware available yet.Samsung will surely be hard at work rolling out fixes for devices that remain susceptible, but in

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