A four-year-old vulnerability could infect 99 per cent of Android devices with Trojan malware without users even realising, a team of security researchers has claimed. A blog post by Bluebox CTO Jeff Forristal said the vulnerability has ...
Tags: Android, virus, data safety
There are "lots of things Google could do" to protect users of the Android platform from malware infection via the company's Play Store, says cyber security firm AVG's virus lab head, Pavel Krcma. "They could start scans of new packages ...
Tags: Google, Android platform, Play Store
PC World - Google has acquired Web-based URL scanner VirusTotal in what may be an effort to improve browser security. VirusTotal's service is pretty simple: Visit the website and either select a file to scan or paste in a URL. Also ...
Tags: Google, URL scanner, VirusTotal, company news
Several malicious Android apps designed to steal mobile transaction authentication numbers (mTANs) sent by banks to their customers over SMS (Short Message Service) were found on Google Play by researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky ...
Tags: Computer Products, Apps, SMS, Google Play
Facebook on Tuesday launched a feature that allows users to lock down their Facebook accounts and perform malware scans if they suspect that their computers might be infected. Facebook already uses internal scanners to detect spam and ...
Tags: Facebook, malware, infected computers
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has taken a swipe at rival Apple, claiming that its lead over Apple in the mobile operating system market compares with flocks of consumers opting for Microsoft's desktop software in the 1990s. Google's ...
Tags: Eric Schmidt, Apple, mobile operating system, Android
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