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Study finds Android apps circumvented privacy opt-in rules and collected sensitive user information against user permission. Continue reading 1,300 Popular Android Apps Access Data Without Proper Permissions
Update (22 June 2019) — More technical details and proof-of-concept for the OutLook for Android vulnerability has been released that we have covered in a separate article here.
Microsoft today released an updated version of its “Outlook for Android” t… Continue reading Important Flaw in Outlook App for Android Affects Over 100 Millions Users
Mobile gaming continues to hold its own, accounting for 10% of the time users spend in apps — a percentage that has remained steady over the years, even though our time in apps overall has grown by 50% over the past two years. In addition, games are continuing to grow their share of consumer spend, …
Even after Google’s security oversight over its already-huge Android ecosystem has evolved over the years, malware apps still keep coming back to Google Play Store.
Sometimes just reposting an already detected malware app from a newly created Play Sto… Continue reading Google Makes it Tough for Rogue App Developers Get Back on Android Play Store
What could be worse than this, if the software that’s meant to protect your devices leave backdoors open for hackers or turn into malware?
Researchers today revealed that a security app that comes pre-installed on more than 150 million devices manufac… Continue reading Hackers Could Turn Pre-Installed Antivirus App on Xiaomi Phones Into Malware
Six years after it was introduced, it looks as if Android’s Advertising ID (AAID) might no longer be the privacy forcefield Google claimed it would be. Continue reading Thousands of Android apps bypass Advertising ID to track users
Just because an app is available on Google Play Store doesn’t mean that it is a legitimate app. Despite so many efforts by Google, some fake and malicious apps do sneak in and land millions of unaware users on the hunting ground of scammers and hackers… Continue reading Several Popular Beauty Camera Apps Caught Stealing Users’ Photos
Twitter just admitted that the social network accidentally revealed some Android users’ protected tweets to the public for more than 4 years — a kind of privacy blunder that you’d typically expect from Facebook.
When you sign up for Twitter, all your … Continue reading A Twitter Bug Left Android Users’ Private Tweets Exposed For 4 Years
Android apps in the “Family” category had a surprisingly high number of trackers embedded in them. Continue reading Children’s apps contain an average of 7 third-party trackers, study finds
This simple setup will help you discover if your apps are listening in on you. Continue reading Are your Android apps listening to you?