Android's own malware scanner only detects a fraction of threats to the Google device operating system, according to the results of one researcher. A short report published by Xuxian Jiang, professor of computer science at North Carolina ...
Tags: Android, malware scanner, Google, Nexus 7, tablet
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
More than 50% of devices running Google's Android mobile operating system (OS) have unpatched vulnerabilities, opening them up to malicious apps and other attacks. Security provider Duo Bulletin assessed 20,000 Android devices worldwide ...
Tags: operating system, mobile, Android, unpatched vulnerabilities
Mobile device management (MDM) is not about security, according to Eric Green, senior vice-president of business development at security firm Mobile Active Defense Partners. "There is no security in MDM; its ability to secure a device is ...
Tags: MDM, BYOD, ISC, Eric Green, mobile security
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
An app known as"Find and Call"has been targeting users of both the iPhone App Store and Google's Play market,say researchers at security firm Kaspersky Lab. At first,it was thought to be an SMS worm spread through text messages,rather ...
Tags: Find and Call, app, iPhone App Store, Google's Play market, 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