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Congress sends Apple and Alphabet a 'please explain', perhaps because Oracle asked Oracle’s busy backgrounding about Android privacy last year appears to have helped draw US lawmakers' attention...

Of course researchers added machine learning to the mix too Smartphone hackers can glean secrets by analysing touchscreen user interactions, according to new research.…

New fingerprint sensor detects both tactile pressure and skin temperature to unlock smartphone, according to Nature Communications.

Internet users have grown used to the idea that they can be tracked and profiled as they browse the web, but what about the specific risks of smartphones?

Power trace sniffing, a badly-designed API and some cloudy AI spell potential trouble A group of researchers has demonstrated that smartphone batteries can offer a side-channel attack vector by...

Manufacturer promises update The recently released OnePlus 6 smartphone allows the booting of arbitrary images, security researchers at Edge Security have discovered.…

Updates released this week by LG for its Android smartphones patch two high severity keyboard vulnerabilities that can be exploited for remote code execution. read more

An attacker can gain man-in-the-middle access to inject a rogue executable file onto the phone.

Huawei and ZTE are already telephones non gratae, tied too close for comfort to the Chinese Communist Party and People’s Liberation Army back home.

Smartphones Allegedly Helped Criminals Move Drugs While Evading Law EnforcementThe FBI has arrested the CEO of the Canadian smartphone service Phantom Secure on charges that he and four other...