Blackphone to put privacy and control first
Silent Circle and Geeksphone announced Blackphone, a smartphone placing privacy and control directly in the hands of its users. Blackphone, powered by a security-oriented …
How effective are Android AV solutions?
As the onslaught of Android malware continues, the recently released testing results by independent IT-security institute AV-Test show that most providers of Android antivirus …
Shady Android AV pushed onto unsuspecting users
A deceptive advertising campaign pushing a shady antivirus solution is actively targeting Android users, warns Malwarebytes’ Armando Orozco. The pop-ups are triggered …
Top 100 Android apps hacked in 2013
One hundred percent of the Top 100 paid Android apps and 56 percent of the Top 100 paid Apple iOS apps have been hacked, according to Arxan. As the growth in mobile innovation …
Flawed Android app devkit puts users in danger of MitM attacks
In this age of prevalently free software and services, it’s difficult to make users pay for apps, and especially so in the Android ecosystem. Consequently, mobile app …
Android malware places secret calls to premium rate numbers
A mobile malware family dubbed MouaBad by Lookout researchers has lately been plaguing Chinese users with older versions (3.1 and earlier) of Android. Variants of the malware …
CyanogenMod introduces built-in SMS encryption
CyanogenMod developers have announced the fruit of several months of labor headed by Open Whisper Systems’ Moxie Marlinspike: a seamless implementation of TextSecure, …
Data-slurping Android flashlight app developer settles with FTC
The creator of one of the most popular apps for Android mobile devices has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the free app, which allows a device to be …
Rogue apps can remove Android device locks
Security researchers from German IT consultancy Curesec have uncovered the existence of an Android flaw that could allow hackers to remove all existing device locks activated …
F-Secure launches KEY, a secure password manager
F-Secure Key safely stores your passwords, user names and other credentials so that you can access them wherever you are through one master password. Your personal data is …
New threats subverting digital signature validation
McAfee Labs found new efforts to circumvent digital signature app validation on Android-based devices. The McAfee Labs team identified a new family of mobile malware that …
1.2% of apps on Google Play are repackaged to deliver ads, collect info
Not a month goes by without security researchers finding new malicious apps on Google Play. According to BitDefender, more than one percent of 420,000+ analyzed apps offered …