SMS spying app offered on Google Play
Phone spying apps are usually offered on hacking forums and third party app markets, but given their malicious potential, it’s unusual to see them being offered for sale …
Bogus Facebook apps could lead to Android malware
Bitdefender researchers have recently spotted something that could be the beginning of paid promotions through Facebook, and believe that the approach can very easily be used …
Malicious fake Android AV apps pushed onto users
It seems that every week a new way of targeting Android users with malware is discovered, and most often than not, Russian users are primary targets. Sophos’ researcher …
Secure data on Android devices with SecureZIP
PKWARE announced SecureZIP Reader for Android, an application that secures enterprise and government data. The SecureZIP Solution secures corporate information that end-users …
Android security: Protection of Java and native apps
Arxan Technologies enhanced its Mobile Application Protection Suite to include multi-layered, end-to-end protection for Android applications. Given the open source nature of …
Android remote systems administration tools
Cura is a mobile phone application bundle of remote systems administration tools. It provides a personalized terminal emulator, a syslog module that allows for reading logs …
Alternative app marketplaces prove profitable for cybercriminals
Avast researchers discovered a new batch of fake alternative marketplaces for downloading smartphone apps that trick users into sending premium rate SMS messages. Using a …
Secure online voting on iOS and Android
Scytl announced today the successful implementation of its online voting encryption technology for use on Android and iOS. By encrypting the ballot on the voter’s device …
Android Cookbook
“Android has gone from zero to one of the leading mobile platforms in a few years,” explains author Ian Darwin, who crowdsourced many of the 200 …
Trojan posing as Flash Player for Android
Russian Android users are constantly targeted with Trojans posing as legitimate apps. Last month it was fake Instagram and Angry Birds Space apps, this time the lure is a …
Fake mobile AV apps offered on Google Play
Downloading apps from Google Play, the official online Android app market, is not without its dangers. Even though Google has been scanning the offered apps for malware by …
Security and management for iOS
3LM released version 3.0 of its security and management platform which extends 3LM’s Mobile Device and Application Management (MDAM) support to any Android OS-based …