Popular Samsung, LG Android Phones Open to 'Spearphone' Eavesdropping

A new way to eavesdrop on people’s mobile phone calls has come to light in the form of Spearphone – an attack that makes use of Android devices’ on-board accelerometers motion sensors to infer speech from the devices’ speakers. An acronym for “Speech privacy exploit via accelerometer-sensed...

New Attack Lets Android Apps Capture Loudspeaker Data Without Any Permission

Earlier this month, The Hacker News covered a story on research revealing how over 1300 Android apps are collecting sensitive data even when users have explicitly denied the required permissions. The research was primarily focused on how app developers abuse multiple ways around to collect locati...

New Attack Lets Android Apps Capture Loudspeaker Data Without Any Permission

Earlier this month, The Hacker News covered a story on research revealing how over 1300 Android apps are collecting sensitive data even when users have explicitly denied the required permissions. The research was primarily focused on how app developers abuse multiple ways around to collect locati...