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At Google I/O, the company announced a number of security upgrades, including making Android easier to patch.

Security of Android devices has been a nightmare since its inception, and the biggest reason being is that users don't receive latest security patch updates regularly. Precisely, it's your device...

Less than a month after Microsoft announced an operating system read more

As part of its May 2018 Android Security Bulletin, Google this week released additional mitigations for the Meltdown attack that impacts microprocessors from Intel, AMD, and other vendors. read more

These are the phones that were calling home to Shanghai every 72 hours, with no opt-in or notice, to hand over a whole lot of PII.

Soon-to-be-staunched Linux network process folder bleeds info about smartmobe use The forthcoming Android P release will protect the operating system's network processes against snoops and nasties.…

A flaw that allowed apps to monitor user network activity will be fixed, but not for all apps.

Do you know that any app you have installed on your Android phone can monitor the network activities—even without asking for any sensitive permission—to detect when other apps on your phone are...

Researchers from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam have demonstrated that it is possible to use a Rowhammer attack to remotely hack Android phones. What is a Rowhammer attack? “The Rowhammer attack...

For the very first time, security researchers have discovered an effective way to exploit a four-year-old hacking technique called Rowhammer to hijack an Android phone remotely. Dubbed GLitch, the...