Android
Check Point reveals details on latest mobile adware and data stealing malware campaigns
Researchers from Israeli based cybersecurity firm Check Point Software Technologies has unveiled details about two massive mobile adware and data stealing campaigns which are reported to have already targeted over 250 million victims on a global note. The study reveals that this mobile adware and data stealing campaigns are targeting Android mobiles by invading the […]
Google offers Adiantum Mobile Security to entry-level Android smartphones
Google LLC has made it official that it is going to offer Adiantum mobile security to entry-level Android smartphones developed to encrypt data on devices that do not operate on the latest ARMv8 Processors. The objective of the latest offering is to secure devices that are unable to support Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that are […]
Mobile Security for Microsoft Windows Phone users’ ends so what’s next
All Microsoft Windows 10 mobile phone users are hereby informed that the support for their devices will end from December 10 this year and they will no longer receive any updated or assistance at all from Microsoft from then on. Readers of this article have to notify a fact over here that the tech giant […]
Cyber Attack news for the day
1.) To all those who are still using Windows 7 operating system loaded PCs and Laptops, here’s a piece of bad news. Microsoft has announced that it is going to end support to its popular operating system from news January and so PCs which run on the said obsolete OS will become vulnerable to cyber […]
How to make your smartphone private
Whether it’s an Apple iPhone or an Android device there is always a snooping threat looming on the users as firms like Google or Facebook refuse to give ownership to their users over data share. Although Apple Inc promotes that it sells products and services as per its consumer’s privacy, there is no guarantee that […]
Google to block G-Drive Cloud backups from Android Pie for Security reasons
Google has announced that it will block automated cloud backups to Google Drive (G-Drive) from Smart Phones which operate on its upcoming Android Pie (P) version. The company also added in its statement that it will no longer be able to read user data stored on its cloud servers by its Android P users. The […]
Google collects this data from its users
A research conducted by Vanderbilt University on Google search engine’s data collection activity has found that the internet juggernaut collects two-thirds of data through passive means from its users. This includes information from apps running in the background of Android devices, Youtube, Google Photos, Maps, Chrome browsers, and even in incognito browsers. Therefore, to all […]
Samsung Galaxy S7 mobile phones are vulnerable to Cyber Attacks
Researchers from Austria based Graz Technical University have come to a conclusion that hackers can anytime exploit the meltdown vulnerability on Samsung Galaxy S7 mobile phones and put millions of the said device users into jeopardy. A team of researchers from the University disclosed their findings on Wednesday at the Black Hat Security conference held […]
Google takes the blame for India UIDAI Aadhaar data controversy
Google has taken the blame for the Indian UIDAI Aadhaar Data goof up and admitted that it pushed the Aadhaar helpline number into the contact lists of the phones to help the Indian Populace. At the same time, the internet juggernaut clarified that the coding of the helpline number into the mobile phones was not […]
EU penalizes Google with $5 billion fine for monopolizing its Android Software
We all know that Google offers some of its default apps on its Android smartphones which include its Chrome search browser, Youtube, and Gmail. But the European Union (EU) has slapped an anti-trust penalty of $5 billion on Google for indulging in such practices which is almost equivalent to a yearly budget contributed by the […]
