Security News

Fake Android battery monitor app thoroughly compromises users' devices (Help Net Security)
2015-07-07 09:42

Downloading apps from Google Play is a safer proposition that doing it from third party markets, but it still does not guarantee that you won't download a malicious app, despite Google using an automa...

4,900 new Android malware strains discovered every day (Help Net Security)
2015-07-01 13:13

G DATA security experts discovered 440,267 new Android malware strains in the first quarter of 2015, which means that a new mobile malware strain for Android was discovered every 18 seconds. "New...

Instapaper for Android vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-06-24 11:17

Bitdefender researchers have discovered that Android app Instapaper is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks that could expose users’ signup/login credentials when logging into their accounts. Us...

Many popular Android apps fail to encrypt login credentials (Help Net Security)
2015-06-22 08:23

Using encryption to protect mobile traffic and especially the exchange of credentials between the user and company servers should be a must in this day and age. Unfortunately, there are companies that...

Of Non-Nexus Devices and the Android Security Rewards Program (Threatpost)
2015-06-18 12:22

Google's decision to limit its Android Security Rewards program to Nexus devices could have security consequences for non-Nexus device users.