Enlarge / Cybercriminals or anonymous hackers use malware on mobile phones to hack personal and business passwords online. Getty Images reader comments 54 with Overall, Android devices have earned a decidedly mixed reputation for security. While the OS itself and Google’s Pixels have stood up over the years against software exploits, the never-ending flow of… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 246 with Federal authorities, tech pundits, and news outlets want you to be on the lookout for a scary cyberattack that can hack your phone when you do nothing more than plug it into a public charging station. These warnings of “juice jacking,” as the threat has come… Read More »
Enlarge / Images of the Samsung Galaxy S21, which runs with an Exynos chipset. reader comments 89 with Share this story Google is urging owners of certain Android phones to take urgent action to protect themselves from critical vulnerabilities that give skilled hackers the ability to surreptitiously compromise their devices by making a specially crafted… Read More »
Enlarge / DNS hijacking concept. reader comments 16 with 0 posters participating Share this story Researchers have uncovered a malicious Android app that can tamper with the wireless router the infected phone is connected to and force the router to send all network devices to malicious sites. The malicious app, found by Kaspersky, uses a… Read More »
Enlarge / Liz Truss, then Chief Secretary to the Treasury, taking a picture on her phone on May 1, 2018, in London. Getty Images reader comments 79 with 56 posters participating Share this story British opposition politicians are calling for an “urgent investigation” into an unconfirmed media report that spies suspected of working for Russia… Read More »
Enlarge (credit: Lari Bat | Getty Images) Google is closing a loophole that has allowed thousands of companies to monitor and sell sensitive personal data from Android smartphones, an effort welcomed by privacy campaigners in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to end women’s constitutional right to abortion. It also took a further… Read More »
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Android malware developers are stepping up their billing fraud game with apps that disable Wi-Fi connections, surreptitiously subscribe users to pricey wireless services, and intercept text messages, all in a bid to collect hefty fees from unsuspecting users, Microsoft said on Friday. This threat class has been a fact of life… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 31 with 24 posters participating Share this story Security researchers said they uncovered a vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to commandeer millions of Android devices equipped with mobile chipsets made by Qualcomm and MediaTek. The vulnerability resided in ALAC—short for Apple Lossless Audio Codec and also known as Apple Lossless—which… Read More »
Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images reader comments 70 with 44 posters participating Share this story Russia’s biggest Internet company has embedded code into apps found on mobile devices that allows information about millions of users to be sent to servers located in its home country. The revelation relates to software created by Yandex that permits… Read More »