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Android security update focuses on media files

Do you like audio and video on your Android device? They lie at the heart of recent vulnerabilities in Google's latest security update

By Fahmida Rashid

Nov 6, 2015 3 mins

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How a mobile app company found the XcodeGhost in the machine

Apple will facing increasingly clever attempts to sneak malware into the App Store

By Jeremy Kirk

Nov 5, 2015 4 mins

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Apple wages battle to keep App Store malware-free

Thousands of apps have been found in recent weeks with potentially malicious components

By Jeremy Kirk

Nov 5, 2015 4 mins

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Trojanized Android apps flood third-party stores, compromise phones

Malicious copies of the most popular Android apps are used to install persistent adware

By Lucian Constantin

Nov 4, 2015 2 mins

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Google researchers poke holes in Galaxy S6 Edge, show OEMs add risky code

The code added by Samsung to the Android firmware on its device had 11 easy-to-find vulnerabilities

By Lucian Constantin

Nov 3, 2015 3 mins

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Winner claimed in $1 million iOS 9 hacking contest

Bug bounty firm Zerodium will make the vulnerability information available to its customers

By Jeremy Kirk

Nov 2, 2015 3 mins

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Meet the man-in-the-middle of your next security crisis

That pesky, stealthy man-in-the-middle shows up everywhere from the cloud to SSL. You could be at a disadvantage if you don’t know where he’ll strike next.

By David Geer

Oct 28, 2015 5 mins

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Iranian hackers show strong interest in Android spying tools

AndroRAT and DroidJack both can read text messages and listen to calls

By Jeremy Kirk

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins

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Headphones can be used to hack a smartphone, report says

Smartphone headphone cables can be electromagnetically attacked and your device's voice command system can be taken over.

By Patrick Nelson

Oct 20, 2015 3 mins

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Is it still possible to do phone phreaking? Yes, with Android on LTE

Call spoofing and overbilling are possible due to flaws in how voice is transferred over mobile data networks, researchers say

By Jeremy Kirk

Oct 19, 2015 4 mins

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