Security News

Can you trust your Android VPN client? (Help Net Security)
2017-01-26 21:41

Do you trust your Android VPN client to keep your data secure and your online browsing private? Perhaps you shouldn’t. A group of researchers has analyzed 283 Android apps from Google Play that...

Security Risks of the President's Android Phone (Schneier on Security)
2017-01-26 13:06

Reports are that President Trump is still using his old Android phone. There are security risks here, but they are not the obvious ones. I'm not concerned about the data. Anything he reads on that...

Powerful Android RAT impersonates Netflix app (Help Net Security)
2017-01-26 13:00

Mobile malware peddlers often make their malicious wares look like popular Android apps and push them to users through third-party app stores. The latest example of this is the fake Netflix app...

Researchers predict upsurge of Android banking malware (Help Net Security)
2017-01-23 19:55

Android users, beware: source code and instructions for creating a potent Android banking Trojan have been leaked on a hacker forum, and researchers are expecting an onslaught of malware based on...

Android Scoring System Roots Out Malicious, Harmful Apps (Threatpost)
2017-01-19 15:00

Google this week explained how it weighs potentially harmful Android apps using the Verify Apps malware scanner and a scoring system it calls Dead or Insecure.