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Facebook announced it's tweaking its Android version, which was tracking your location even when the app wasn't in use.

Mobile privacy reasearch group AppCensus has discovered 18,000 Android applications that violate Google Play’s advertising identifier (ad ID) policies and users’ privacy.  read more

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.

Here's the latest Naked Security podcast - enjoy!

A security researcher has discovered yet another cryptocurrency-stealing malware on the official Google Play Store that was designed to secretly steal bitcoin and cryptocurrency from unwitting...

What VPN would you recommend for an Android user who uses public WiFi quite often and wants to buff up their security?

Google's Adiantum boosts encryption for low-end devices with processors that do not have hardware support for AES.

Google this week announced Adiantum, a new form of encryption aimed at Android devices without cryptographic acceleration. read more

A trio of bugs could have opened Android 7, 8 and 9 to remote attackers wielding booby-trapped image files. Here's what you need to know...

Google has created an alternative disk and file encryption mode for low-end Android devices that don’t have enough computation power to use the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). About Adiantum...