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On the same day a potentially huge security hole was uncovered in Samsung’s mobile enterprise security solution Knox, the South Korean technology giant was ranked the best enterprise smartphone solutions provider in the world. Market research company ABI Research released the results of its Enterprise Smartphone vendor matrix earlier this week and it determined that out of nine smartphone vendors evaluated in 18 categories, Samsung’s handsets and services are the best available for enterprise use. In a bit of an ironic twist, security researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev announced on the very same day that they found a massive security vulnerability in Samsung’s Knox enterprise software that allows hackers to “easily intercept” data sent to and from Samsung’s Galaxy