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Researcher finds building blocks for privilege escalation: can they be assembled to create a flaw?

Developers will have a new option to for Android apps too track location only when in use.

Apps in the Google Play Store purport to upgrade your phone to Android 9.0 Pie, but an app cannot perform that task.

Plus, BlackBerry wants to be Uncle Sam's go-to security firm, thousands of legal docs pill online, and more Roundup Last week we saw a conservative app exposed, the revelation of Beto's hacker...

The EU's anti-trust regulator is to slap tech giant Google with a new fine over unfair competition practices, sources told AFP on Friday. Brussels has targeted the Silicon Valley firm's AdSense...

Google this week revealed that it took down 2.3 billion bad ads last year, including 58.8 million phishing ads. The ads were taken down for violations of both new and existing policies, and the...

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And Oracle accused Google of creating shadow profiles of even non-users. Theirs are just two of 85 responses to an Australian inquiry.

Antivirus testing firm AV-Comparatives has analyzed 250 security applications for Android offered on Google Play and found that many of them either fail to detect threats or they are simply fake. read more

In all, Google reported 45 bugs in its March update with 11 ranked critical and 33 rated high.