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It may be irritating, your screen is full of ads, and when you close one, another appears. Yes, we are talking about adware. What is adware? Adware is synonymous with the ad-supported software. Known as one of the Mac’s biggest problems, it has become ubiquitous in the Android operating system and reaches the Google Play […]
Qualcomm emerged as a mainstream microprocessor manufacturer since the explosion of the smartphone, tablets, and IoT (Internet-of-Things) devices. As one of the three leading ARM-based System-on-the-Chip vendors (the other two are Samsung and MediaTek), their SOCs are common on all mobile computing segment. Like its desktop/laptop counterparts, the SOC is not immune to hardware bugs. […]
Researchers have uncovered an “API-breaking” vulnerability, which could expose Android device systems data to rogue apps. The sensitive information thus exposed could be misused by cybercriminals. Security researchers from Nightwatch Cybersecurity, in a detailed blog post on the vulnerability, have explained that system broadcasts from the Android OS may expose sensitive information about the user’s […]
One can allow a crook to wipe devices clean. Two researchers from Check Point’s mobile security division have uncovered two vulnerabilities in LG’s custom modification of the Android OS which enables attackers to take control of the device. The researchers presented their findings at this year’s LayerOne security conference, but not before working with LG to […]