Android 4.2 blocks premium rate messages and verifies third-party apps
Google has recently released its latest Android version, and the first devices to run it – Samsung’s Nexus 10 and LG’s Nexus 4 – will be released a …
Mobile Device Management for iOS and Android devices
CoSoSys released Mobile Device Management (MDM) for iOS and Android as a new module within Endpoint Protector 4.3 including support for iOS 6. “With Mobile Device …
25% of Google Play apps pose a security risk
New research shows that more than 100,000 Android applications in the Google Play store (25 percent) pose a security risk to mobile device users and the enterprise networks to …
Rugged Android device with secure communication
Cummings Engineering, in partnership with Ascent Rugged Mobile, is launching SAIFE Defender, a commercial rugged Android device with secure digital communications. SAIFE …
Privacy-invading module found in thousands of apps on Google Play
An advertising module embedded into over 7,000 “free” fake versions of legitimate Android apps that can be found on Google Play is actively harvesting a ton of …
CyanogenMod found logging Android unlock swipe gestures
CyanogenMod, one of the most popular modified Android firmware on the market, has been found containing code that logs the swipe gestures used by the users to unlock their …
Popular Android apps leaking passwords due to poor SSL
A group of researchers from two German universities claim that eight percent of the 13,500 popular, free-of-charge, legitimate Android Android apps they downloaded from Google …
French hacker arrested for creating, spreading SMS Trojan
A 20-year-old from Amiens, France, has allegedly managed to steal around half a million of euros (over $650,000) by creating and distributing a Trojan disguised as legitimate …
Multi-platform attack site discovered via fake Lookout Android app
Researchers from security firm TrustGo have recently spotted on Google Play a bogus app that supposedly automatizes the updating of a batch of other apps. What piqued their …
Free mobile app profiler for risk assessment
At RSA Conference Europe 2012, Zscaler announced the results of an analysis from ThreatLabZ which reveals that up to 10 percent of mobile apps expose user passwords and login …
Surge in Android adware
Between the beginning of July and the end of September, FortiGuard Labs researchers reported a marked increase in Android adware, new evidence suggesting that Zitmo …
Kaspersky Mobile Security helps Android users recover stolen smartphones
Kaspersky Lab announced the addition of new features to Kaspersky Mobile Security designed to aid in the protection of data residing on lost or stolen smartphones and the …