by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

Time and again, we hear about Android being the worst platform in terms of security, mostly because it’s rife with malware. Apps that steal personal information and call into expensive premium numbers have purportedly proliferated…

by Conan Hughes, 2 months ago

Since we reported last week that Samsung Galaxy Note 2 has a lock screen bug, which lets users take a sneak peek of the home screen and cause limited potential harm, another blogger has discovered…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 2 months ago

Credit: quinn.anya/Flickr There are many reasons you’d want to repurpose an Android smartphone as a surveillance camera. From checking on the baby upstairs to monitoring a property for intruders, there are times when you wished…

by Bams Sadewo, 2 months ago

Having trouble accessing your Evernote account ? Here’s the explanation. As announced on its blog, Evernote said that it has suffered from a major security breach, making it the latest big-name tech companies to have been…

by Simon Hill, 2 months ago

According to the latest report to shock the Android world there’s been a 2000% increase in malware in the Google Play Store and one particularly vicious virus is capable of reaching through the touchscreen and…

by Nate Swanner, 2 months ago

Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft. Three major tech companies, all hacked in the past few weeks… but they’re not alone. Who is responsible? Why did they do it? We may never learn the answer to those questions,…

by Conan Hughes, 3 months ago

Do you think your anti-malware app really does its job in protecting your mobile device? You may want to find out by checking AV-TEST’s official detailed test report for January 2013. Exactly 22 apps have…

by Gary Sims, 3 months ago

A new report, which looks at the security threat that mobile devices pose to corporate networks, has some good news and some bad news for smartphone users. More and more business smartphones are representing a convergence of personal and…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 3 months ago

The name is 2000. AME 2000. That’s the James Bond-style intro we think Motorola Solutions should prep for the company’s latest Android-based device that comes with a locked down, user-friendly platform. Mind you, we’re not…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 3 months ago

Privacy has often been a key issue in discussing mobile devices, especially given the pervasive nature of mobile devices these days. Our smartphones and tablets have GPS tracking sensors, cameras, microphones, and we store personal…

by Conan Hughes, 3 months ago

Verizon Wireless has put up in its support page two useful online tools that can help its Android customers identify which of the 700,000 available apps in the Google Play Store are the most practical…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 3 months ago

A few months back, I wrote about Silent Circle, an online service run by former Navy SEAL commando Mike Janke, PGP creator Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas, who created Apple’s disk-encryption system. Silent Circle promises secure…