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Android Survives Hacking Competition - iOS, Blackberry Get "Pwned"
With all of the recent concern about malware in the Android Market, it may lead one to make the generalization that the Android OS is nothing but a big loser in the mobile security department. It...
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Critical Vulnerability Found In Adobe Flash For Android, Probably No Cause...
With a great plugin comes great responsibility - to avoid malicious Flash files, that is. A zero-day exploit has been discovered in Adobe Flash that affects all Android versions of the software, Adobe...
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Lookout Team Pegs 25 Android Market Apps Infected With DroidDreamLight Malware
Remember DroidDream - one of the worst malware apps that we've seen since Android's inception? Well, it appears that the developer of said malware is back at it again, with a reported 25 infected...
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£50k Fine Slapped On Firm Responsible For Fake Angry Birds And Other Play...
Fake apps in the Play Store are nothing new. We've seen countless fakes hit the Store, many of which contained some form of malware used to steal user data, or worse, charge premium features to their...
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Duo Security Sends A Trojan Horse Inside Google's Bouncer, Explores And...
The Google Play Store's "Bouncer," which Google launched back in February to protect Android users from malicious apps, is a service that scans potential Play Store apps by running them in a virtual...
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[Security] Firefox For Android Can Be Tricked Into Automatically Downloading...
A very serious security hole has been discovered in Firefox for Android that allows a website to force the browser to download and run potentially damaging files, usually without the user's knowledge...
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[Security] Vulnerability In Firefox For Android Discovered That Allows...
The security of our mobile apps and private data is a very serious matter. This is particularly true for high value targets like web browsers, which often store login credentials that can be used to...
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Google updates Play Store developer policies, provides additional information...
Google's policy for developers on Google Play has been updated recently to include a few new changes. It has revised both the Malicious Behavior policy and the Ratings Reviews, and Installs policy, as...
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Inaudible smart speaker commands can be hidden in music, researchers say
In 2016, a group of students from University of California, Berkeley, and Georgetown University demonstrated that they were able to issue unheard commands to smart devices like Google Home and Amazon...
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Power Shade and Material Notification Shade removed from the Play Store —...
From time to time we come across a story of an app being removed from the Play Store unjustly and the developer getting frustrated with the lack of warning or communication, and more frustratingly,...
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Malicious third-party SDKs obtained personal data from millions of Twitter...
Twitter and Facebook have both been targeted by malicious mobile SDKs on Android that accessed personal data, such as email addresses and user names. The companies have since informed Google about the...
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