Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Android.
Google has fixed quite a few vulnerabilities with the July 2023 Android security update. About four of these vulnerabilities have been classified as critical. In total, Google fixed 46 vulnerabilities in the latest security update. Four are classified as critical to very critical because they ar... Read more
10 months ago
The latest update from Google fixes the most severe threat of the Mali GPU bug exploited as zero-day. This week Google issued a security update that addresses dozens of vulnerabilities, including five that are deemed "critical" in their severity by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Securit... Read more
11 months ago
Chinese researchers have cracked the fingerprint security of Android phones through a brute-force attack: BrutePrint. This allowed them to take control of the devices. According to the researchers from Tencent Labs and Zhejiang University, the BrutePrint attack allows hackers to bypass the user ... Read more
11 months ago
Millions of Android devices contain malware before a consumer even gets their hands on them. A cybercrime collective operating under the name "Lemon Group" is using the infected hardware for a variety of criminal activities. With the so-called Guerrilla malware, the opportunities for crime are enor... Read more
11 months ago
WhatsApp is dealing with a bug on some Android phones. Owner Meta argues that the app falsely claims to have microphone access. A month ago, a Twitter employee questioned why WhatsApp was using the microphone in the morning, but it was said to be a false positive. The tweet was picked up by Twit... Read more
12 months ago
This month's Android security updates patched a high-severity vulnerability that allowed attackers to install commercial spyware on Android devices. Hackers exploited the security flaw (CVE-2023-0266) as a zero-day in a spyware campaign. This campaign targeted Samsung Android phones as part of a... Read more
12 months ago
Once considered a "web-only" device with limited capabilities, ChromeOS has come a long way since its initial release with the Cr-48 laptop. The integration of Linux and Android apps has made ChromeOS a more versatile secondary device for many users. However, the pain of learning a new set of ke... Read more
1 year ago
The new tool makes it easier for developers to streamline log-ins on their Apps. As Internet users struggle to keep track of the myriad credential combinations they use to access content and applications, the quest for a "passwordless" future is growing ever more heated. The advent of password m... Read more
1 year ago
The password manager vendor has decided to move to an open source DevOps strategy Dashlane has announced that it has made the source code for its Android and iOS apps available on GitHub. The code is now open sourced under GitHub's Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license, the comp... Read more
1 year ago
The US tech giant seeks to squash an investigation by the UK's competition watchdog. This week Reuters reported that Apple has filed an appeal against an investigation launched by Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) into the dominance of its mobile browsers in the cloud gaming mark... Read more
1 year ago
