Google's Android mobile operating system(OS)is under siege by attackers,with malware and information stealing adware targeting the platform up 483%in the last quarter. While Apple's relatively rigorous approach to vetting apps before ...
Tags: Google Android OS, Attackers, open platform, Android apps
"The number of fronts of risk and war, as some people call it, are definitely multiplying," says Clinton McFadden, senior operations manager for IBM X-Force research and development, which just released the results of its X-Force 2012 ...
Tags: Cyberwarfare, Trend and Risk Report., IBM, US
Technology giant Google has blocked hardware vendor Acer from producing a mobile phone running a variant of the Android operating system,claiming that it would excessively fragment the ecosystem. Acer had planned to produce a mobile phone ...
Tags: Google, Aliyun operating system, Android derivative, Acer
Mobile malware has surged this year,with Android smartphones and tablets by far the most likely to be attacked.That's according to data released by security software provider McAfee in its second quarter threats report. The number of ...
Tags: android devices, mobile malware, quantum chip, infected system
IDG News Service-Mobile malware is rising fast,infecting nearly 13 million phones in the world during the year first half of 2012,up 177%from the same period a year ago,according to Beijing-based security vendor NetQin. In a report ...
Tags: Mobile malware, NetQin, smartphones, running Android
Trojan malware has hit 100,000 devices using the Google Android operating system(OS)in China,say security researchers. The Trojan,dubbed MMarketPay.A,is designed to purchase apps and content without the consent of the device user,running ...
Tags: Android, Trojan Malware, Applications, Security
Smartphones running Google's Android operating system(OS)have been hijacked by a botnet,according to a Microsoft researcher. Researcher Terry Zink said he had come across spam being sent from Yahoo e-mail servers by Android ...
Tags: Smartphones, Google's Android OS, Microsoft researcher, botnet