Tag Archives: Android

A group of scientists from universities in Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands said that the Android OS allows third parties to receive lists of all applications installed on the device. Experts are preparing to present an interesting report at MOBILESoft, which will be held in Seoul this year, unless of …

While the whole world is actively fighting the coronavirus pandemic, attackers are resorting to new ways to steal money and data from users. Cybercriminals are distributing a fake Android tracker to track coronavirus infections. Specialists from DomainTools have recorded active registration of domain names in connection with the coronavirus. “Cybercriminals …

The Android operating system became the most vulnerable platform in 2019. Specialists of TheBestVPN portal made this conclusion during the analysis of vulnerability statistics in various operating systems and software products for the end of 2019. According to TheBestVPN experts, we are all vulnerable when we connect to the Internet, …

Google engineers released the March update kit for Android, in which were fixed more than 70 various vulnerabilities, including critical ones. In particular, was fixed critical bug in MediaTek processors, which still threatens millions of devices. The critical error CVE-2020-0032 has been fixed at security level 2020-03-01. This set of …

Researchers from the University of New Mexico discovered a vulnerability affecting Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, iOS Android, and other Unix-based OSs. Vulnerability allows to listen, intercept and interfere with the operation of VPN connections. The bug got the identifier CVE-2019-14899, and the root of the problem lies in …

This week, Google reported about its success in adopting the HTTPS standard: 80% of applications encrypt traffic by default. So, in the official blog of the IT giant, appeared a message that currently 4 out of 5 applications (80%) available through the Google Play Store encrypt traffic by default and …

According to Reuters, the European Commission and European antitrust authorities are conducting a “preliminary investigation” regarding Google data collection methods. Therefore, the European antitrust monitors again tackle the search giant. “Competition enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic are now looking into how dominant tech companies use and monetise data. …

This week it became known that due to the use of third-party SDKs, the data of Twitter and Facebook users leaked to the side (of course, without any knowledge). SDK (software development kit) is a set of developmental tools that allows software specialists to create applications for a specific software …

Qihoo 360 Netlab analysts presented a report describing a large-scale hacker operation aimed at Kazakhstan. Chinese experts talked about cyberattacks on Kazakhstan companies and organizations. According to researchers, the hacker group Golden Falcon (or APT-C-34) was behind the many studied attacks. The victims of these incidents were not only private …

Google increase the amount of rewards for the bug bounty program and now it will pay up to $ 1.5 million for hacking Android and Titan M. Now, researchers who have found vulnerabilities in Android and the Titan M security module (used in Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 4) can …