Our childhood dream game ”The King of Fighters” is now on Android. The G-Gee developers are now planning to put King of Fighter on Google’s Android platform. The 2D fighting video game is trying its luck on Android now but according to developers, it will be available to limited smartphones. Some of them will be Samsung Galaxy Tab […]
The FBI is now demanding the right to read whatever information is on your smartphone, whenever it wants to do so, without a warrant and with impunity. They have demanded, by requesting a court order, that Google ‘provide law enforcement with any and all means of gaining access, including login and password information, password reset, […]
In a recent survey of people in America who use their smartphone for work, less than a third said they employ the password protection on their smartphones. Although everyone will agree that not protecting your smartphone isn’t smart, it is all about memorizing. Everyone that has an Android-based device knows they do not have to
Huawei is one of the worlds leading communication technology and information solution company. Huawei claims to have made “the world’s fastest quad-core smart phone named as “the Huawei Ascend D quad”. This smart phone is powered by K3V2 quad-core 1.5 GHz CPU and has the latest 4.0 Android operating system. Huawei, in Barcelona Mobile World […]
In response to recent reports that malicious apps may have made their way into the official Android Market, Google has responded by announcing a new program to more proactively scan the Market and developer accounts for seemingly malicious apps and highlights and/or remove them before users experience trouble. Traditionally, the barriers of entry for developers
National Security Agency’s (NSA) SE Linux team, citing critical gaps in the security of Android , is building a Security Enhanced (SE) version of the publicly available source code for the Android project. This is a variant of the SE Linux project co-developed by NSA and RedHat, which gives (among other things) a more granular
Microsoft is back with another Android patent deal this time with LG Electronics that will handle smartphones, tablets and devices using Google’s Android and/or Chrome operating system. Microsoft is already in a similar contract with several other popular Android phone making companies such as Acer, Samsung and HTC. Corporate vice president of Microsoft Mr. Horacio […]
Android has finally joined the list of those phones which really and urgently needs an antivirus in order to save itself from Trojans, virus, spyware and other types of dangerous worms, considering the fact that Android phones carry very sensitive data. Recently on Russian Network, an SMS Trojan Horse was found in an Android phone posing […]
Grand Theft Auto III, a game that entirely changed the world of video games. The 10th anniversary of world’s most dominant games of all time was celebrated by Rockstar Games as The critically applaud smashing hit Grand Theft Auto III comes to mobile devices, bringing the wild and dark side of Liberty City back to life. From […]
Are you tired of transferring your favorite music files from your phone to your laptop or from laptop to your phone? then here is an easy solution, Use Easy mp3 Downloader app is a solution to avoid the annoying file transferring process. This app provides you freedom to play, download and search music files directly […]
Last year when it was war like atmosphere between Apple and Android regarding the former’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 were among most of the breaking news, Amazon survived through the news with the tablet “Kindle Fire” which evolved as a third power in the universe of tablet computing. Kindle Fire runs on Android, so what in the […]
One of the blessings of Open Source initiatives is the rapidity with which coders can release quality collaborative code. This is one of the ways the Android managed to claw its way into the smartphone mainstream, after arriving late to the game. But as the app ecosystem matures, vulnerability/patch management becomes more of an issue,
Recently, we’ve noted a steep rise in Android malware and predicted the rise in banking malware, now we see another example in the wild, this time SpyEye. Trusteer has a good rundown on it, saying “It seems that SpyEye distributors are catching up with the mobile market as they (finally) target the Android mobile platform.
Awhile back we mused that the rapid rise in Android malware would hit its stride near the intersection of widespread mobile financial transaction use, and the continuing steep rise in adoption of the platform. Now we see AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon entering a joint venture to back a payment service for, guess what: Mobile financial
I have an Android in my pocket as I type, with all kinds of cool apps ranging from GPS navigation to acoustic guitar tuner (really cool) – and apparently I’m not alone. Users are scooping up the latest batch of Android smartphones in record numbers, and what better target can malware authors ask for? Well,
With the proliferation of the data we hold on our mobile devices, it’s no wonder Neil Daswani, CTO of Dasient, says around 8% of the apps they tested have been leaking data. In a similar vein, he states, “The number of malware samples on mobile devices has doubled in the past two years.” Google tends
Android Smartphones are under attack again by rogue applications that once installed are reading information from the phone and sending it back to a pre-assigned location. According to mobile security firm as many as 120,000 users may have been infected from a cafeteria selection of at least two dozen applications from the Android Market. “Once
There are reports coming out today about Google Android and how approximately 99.7% of its users are potentially open to compromise. This news cycle started by the Ulm University publishing some information on the 13th of May showing some results. I’m sure this story will develop and CTAC may follow-up to my blog with more details;
As I have blogged about the Android platform a recurring comment has been “When will ESET have protection for my Android?” Well, I still don’t know when it will be available for sale, but for those who understand the risks involved with running beta software, have backed up all of their data on their Adnroid
…all the relevant malware they’ve seen uses exploits that are restricted to Android OS 2.2 and below…
At a time when Gartner estimates that we’ll have downloaded 17.7 billion + mobile apps worldwide by the end of this year, I couldn’t help thinking that Android users are likelier to pay for lax screening in the Android Market than users who are protected by reasonably strict application whitelisting.
Well, it looks like that concern had some justification. There are a spate of stories today about >50 applications pulled from the Android Market