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Another month where Android finds itself with a mixture of Critical and High vulnerabilities. Jack Wallen offers highlights.

New Mexico's AG filed a lawsuit accusing a popular app maker, plus Google's and Twitter's ad platforms, of illegally collecting kids' data.

Jack Wallen walks you activating and enabling Android Pie's new lockdown mode and shows why you should use it.

Members of Google’s Android team discovered that some of Honeywell’s Android-based handheld computers are affected by a high severity privilege escalation vulnerability. The vendor has released...

Jack Wallen activates and enables Android Pie's new lockdown mode.

Widespread use of unpatched open source code in popular Android apps is causing significant security vulnerabilities, warns the non-profit American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research...

In parts of the developing world, dissidents and journalists face hostile governments and other threats -- and mobile is their only access to the internet.

Google has released its September 2018 security patches for Android, which resolves more than 50 vulnerabilities in the operating system. read more

Researchers have demonstrated a novel, if slightly James Bond technique, for clandestinely discovering the unlock pattern used to secure an Android smartphone.

Android device details are being exposed to running applications via Wi-Fi broadcasts in the mobile operating system, Nightwatch Cybersecurity has discovered. read more