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Samsung offers up to $200,000 for bugs in its devices, services

South Korean giant Samsung Electronics is now offering bounties for reported bugs in its mobile devices, software and services. “The rewards program kicked off with a …

Android explode
Tech firms band together to take down Android DDoS botnet

An ad-hoc alliance of tech firms has managed to seriously cripple an Android-based botnet that was being actively used to DDoS multiple content providers. The botnet, dubbed …

Google hand
Google pulls 500+ backdoored apps from Google Play

Security researchers have identified over 500 apps on Google Play containing an advertising software development kit (SDK) called Igexin, which allowed covert download of …

Samsung
How to spot malicious mobile apps

The pervasiveness of smartphones has resulted in an onslaught of mobile apps, and it’s pretty safe to say that, by now, there is an app for every imaginable purpose. …

Android
New class of attacks affects all Android versions

Researchers have demonstrated how a malicious app with two specific permission can stealthily compromise users’ Android devices. “The possible attacks include …

mobile
More and more apps equipped with ultrasonic tracking capability

Researchers have found 234 Android applications that are constantly listening for ultrasonic beacons in the background, allowing companies to track users’ current …

Android unlocked
How secure are mobile banking apps?

Do banking institutions have a good handle on the things they need to remediate and new control layers they need to adopt to keep users secure? To answer those questions, …

android
Be careful on Google Play

An often repeated piece of advice given to users of mobile devices says that they should stick to well-reputed, official app stores if they want to avoid malware. But while …

iPhone
Attackers can steal smartphone users’ PINs by tapping into data collected by mobile sensors

Researchers have demonstrated that a malicious website or app could work out smartphone users’ PINs or passwords based just on the data collected by various motion …

Android apps
Through inter-app data sharing, Android apps can get your data without permission

With a newly developed toolsuite that can analyze Android apps and detect whether two or more of them can collude with each other to acquire information that they would …

Android graffiti
132 compromised apps removed from Google Play

Google has recently removed 132 Android apps from Google Play due to them containing in their local HTML pages hidden iFrames linking to malicious domains. But even though …

car
Insecure car-controlling Android apps are a boon for car thieves

Being an expensive thing, a car requires an approach to security that is no less meticulous than that of a bank account. Yet, car manufacturers are infinitely more interested …

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