Browsing tag
Do you love playing games on your Android tablet and smartphone? Well, the innocent games you play, could be a route to bring some notorious malware to your devices. The researchers of security firm ESET have recently revealed that games Cowboy Adventure and Jump Chess have compromised the login information of about 1 million users. […]
Ever wondered about the number of users an Android-based malware app can infect after getting approved and published on the Google Play Store? Thousands or maybe around few hundred thousand? But, in this case, your speculations must have nosedived because a recently detected malware app has already managed to infect up to one million Android […]
Last week we reported hackers are developing Android malware every 17 seconds, making it one of the most vulnerable OS ever. Now a spoofed copy of the popular app named as “BatteryBot Pro” requested unnecessary permissions from the user during installation in an attempt to get full control over the user’s Android device, a researcher […]
Protecting customers from fake online transactions has always been a challenging task for the company’s security division, which has forced a popular credit card company to adopt some innovative ways to verify online purchases and to cut down fraud. MasterCard, one of the most popular financial company, while experimenting with the biometric technology, has developed […]
By the first quarter of 2015, hacker/cyber-attackers have optimized their efforts to design Android Malware to such an extent that every seventeen seconds a new threat is detected by security experts. Android is undoubtedly the most widely used operating system in the world. Statistics recommends that around 61% of users around the world consider an […]
Public Wi-Fi networks seem really convenient don’t they! Whether you are at McDonald’s (or just any other food joint offering an open Wi-Fi network for that sake), roaming around your college campus, just one tap of a button on your smartphone and voila the power of an internet connection rests in your hands. With hackers […]
Android Bug Bounty Program is here and it’s your time to report bugs and get paid. Google’s bug bounty or security rewards program that previously gave away millions of dollars to researcher who identified vulnerabilities in Google’s products such as Chrome since 2010 has been re-launched. The program has been extended now and will include […]
Did you ever face a problem of losing your contacts from your Android phone? Ahh…it really gets me when I accidentally delete or lose phone number of my colleague or friends. I put all the blame on my phone for that even if it’s my fault and I guess most of you also do the […]
Android phone users have long shared the view that, despite the continual announcements of ongoing security breaches in an evermore technological world, their devices remained relatively secure. This confidence is likely to have shattered by today’s news that up to 600 million users may be vulnerable to a cracking attack, primarily thanks to the widely […]
Google, at its I/O conference that concluded recently, launched a range of initiatives aimed at making applications lighter and more user-friendly in low bandwidth situations specifically in developed regions. Most important of all the launched initiatives were the new updates of popular social networking forums such as Google Maps and YouTube. These updates include an […]
Screen recording may be an important part of your work if you are a youtuber. But some people like to record their Android reason for no reason. But to record their android screen, one must root their device to do so. But the problem is that you cannot root your device just to record your […]
In this tutorial we are going to show you how to hack Android phones with Androrat. In our tutorials we only EVER hack our own systems as a proof of concept and never engage in any black hat activity. Step1: Create an account on noip.com. Step2: Create a host on noip.com and enter Hostname and click […]
Richard Stallman, the famous creator of GNU operating system, which is often called Linux, opined in a post in The Guardian that almost every operating system in use today can be qualified as malware. The list goes on with today’s popular mobile platforms as well as desktop operating systems. Stallman emphasizes that any software program […]
Team speak is a software for voice communication on Internet mostly used by gamers. This software is cost free and easy to use. The software has lot of features. Users use the TeamSpeak client version to connect to a TeamSpeak server and join chat channels Client Version: In this version the user who uses the […]
Summary: Personal Data of More than 500Million Android Users in Danger — Researchers Claim it is Impossible to Fully Delete Data from Handset after changing Mobile Phone. Even after full wipe it is possible to access text messages, emails, apps, photos and videos because around 630million cell phones cannot clear internal SD cards when the […]
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the present age is the age of smartphones. They have invaded our lives to an extent that was hardly conceivable a few years ago! And what is the single biggest reason behind this- Yes you guessed it right or probably wrong – Android. When you think […]
As per the latest documents provided by Edward Snowden, the NSA developed a program called IRRITANT HORN for delivering malware via Samsung and Google app stores. Edward Snowden has exposed another plan of the National Security Agency/NSA in which the agency had devised a program for spreading malware by intercepting web traffic across mobile application […]
Remember Android logo peeing on Apple logo found on Google Maps in Rawalpindi, Pakistan? Well, Google didn’t like it and for now it has suspended the map editor feature. Mere apologizing wasn’t enough for Google as all hell broke loose when an image of the android mascot peeing on the Apple logo leaked and brought public […]
Votr is an app that uses your postcode to organize tweets of the candidate and offers you to swipe just like the Tinder dating app. Now there is a digital-savvy way to scrutinise the candidate looking for your votes. Votr has been developed by Londoners Zak Cutner and Freddie Poser and uses your postcode to collate […]
Microsoft’s Build 2015 conference is now over and we were greeted with many pleasant surprises. According to me, one of the biggest announcements from the events was that now Windows developers will be able to bring the Android and iOS apps to Windows platform easily. Earlier less was known about how this work but as […]
The importance of a Smartphone was redefined when Azer Jaafoura along with his team members thought about helping Alzheimer’s patients a year back at SETN commonly known as Samsung Electronics Tunisia but due to time constraint and their volunteer work at a children’s hospital, they were unable to do so. In their willingness to make […]