Security News

DDoS sueball, felonious fonts, leaky Android file manager, blundering building security, etc etc
2019-01-19 13:37

Plus, Safari security foiled by… a finger swipe? Roundup This week we wrangled with alleged Russian election meddling, hundreds of millions of username-password combos spilled online, Oracle...

Twitter Android Glitch Exposed Private Tweets for Years
2019-01-18 14:42

Twitter has fixed the issue, which has been ongoing since 2014.

Google cracks down on access to your Android phone and SMS data
2019-01-18 12:16

Android apps that want access to your call and SMS data now have to pass muster with Google's team of reviewers.

New Android Malware Apps Use Motion Sensor to Evade Detection
2019-01-18 11:48

Even after so many efforts by Google for preventing its Play Store from malware, shady apps somehow managed to fool its anti-malware protections and get into its service to infect Android users...

Bug in Twitter Android App Exposed Protected Tweets
2019-01-18 07:01

Twitter revealed on Thursday that users of its Android application may have had their supposedly protected tweets made public due to a bug. read more

A Twitter Bug Left Android Users' Private Tweets Exposed For 4 Years
2019-01-18 06:48

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...

Twitter. Android. Private tweets. Pick two... Account bug unlocked padlocked accounts
2019-01-18 00:01

Cock-up went unnoticed for two Olympics, one World Cup, an EU referendum, and a US presidential election Twitter has fessed up to a flaw in its Android app that, for more than four years, was...

Pre-Installed Android App Impacts Millions with Slew of Malicious Activity
2019-01-11 21:58

The app was developed by legitimate Chinese manufacturing giant TCL.

You can’t delete Facebook from some Androids and people aren’t happy
2019-01-10 20:27

The #DeleteFacebook movement may be growing, but many Samsung users are having a tough time scraping the social network’s preinstalled software from their phones.

Google Patches Critical Vulnerability in Android
2019-01-09 17:18

Google this week released its first set of security patches for Android in 2019, with fixes for more than two dozen vulnerabilities.  The most important of the security bugs is CVE-2018-9583, a...