Consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about the amount of data shared by apps. Apps on Apple and Android smartphones leak lots of users’ information to third parties, research has suggested.…
Tag: Android
Android malware hammers phones with unwanted ads
The Kemoge malware contains eight root exploits, FireEye said. By Jeremy Kirk Android users in more than 20 countries have been infected with a particularly aggressive malware program that bombards…
Google patches second round of Stagefright flaws in Android
More flaws have been found in how Android processes metadata in certain files. By Jeremy Kirk Google has issued patches for two new Stagefright-related vulnerabilities, one of which affects Android…
Chinese smartphones mount massive web attack
Javascript named as culprit. More than 650,000 Chinese smartphones have been unwittingly enrolled in a massive attack that overwhelmed a web server. The huge attack saw the target site hit…
Travel apps riddled with security flaws
The biggest problem was a lack of encryption for data at rest By Maria Korolov The top 10 travel apps in the iOS and Android app stores are all riddled…