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Google Play App Permissions Privacy, Security Concerns
Google’s revamped app permissions for Google Play are not being well received by Android users. Reddit threads are rife with adjectives such as “stupid” and “dangerous,” primarily because Google’s attempt to simplify permissions granted to automatically updated applications may in fact expose use...
Fake 'Placebo Apps' Booted From Google Play, Amazon
A handful of apps purporting to specialize in virus detection and malware scanning were recently removed from Google’s Play marketplace and Amazon after being deemed fake. Security researchers at FireEye discovered five apps in particular that accounted for up to 50,000 downloads and essentially...
Chip and PIN EMV Protocol security vulnerabilities found
Chip-and-PIN payment cards are coming to the United States after a long head start as a standard card-present payment method in Europe and Asia. Already, retailer Target accelerated its plan to move its branded debit and credit cards to chip-and-PIN, also known as EMV Europay, MasterCard and Visa...
Pre-Play Vulnerability Allows Chip-and-PIN Payment Card Cloning
In March this year, we reported that the major card distributor companies, VISA and Mastercard are migrating to EMV chip cards, also known as PIN-and-Chip cards. Unlike traditional magnetic stripe payment cards, EMV chip cards generates a unique code for every transaction, making it nearly...
Google Removes Bitcoin Mining Android Malware from Play
Google recently removed five bogus wallpaper apps from its Play marketplace after they were deemed malicious and found sneakily mining Bitcoins. The malware, dubbed BadLepricon, was spotted funneling Bitcoin into wallets and allowed the attacker to change mining pools easily to maximize the minin...
Android Bitcoin-Mining Malware found on Google Play Store
Google always bound to face trouble over the wide and open nature of its app checking policies on Google Play Store, and despite so many security measures, the search engine giant mostly fails to recognize the Android malware that are lurking around its Google Play store in vast numbers. Recently...
Google Gives Refund to Thousands of Buyers Who Bought Bogus Android AntiVirus App
About a week back we reported about a popular paid Antivirus application on the Google Play Store which was actually a scam, dubbed as ‘Virus Shield’. This First paid fake app managed to become one of the most popular anti-virus app in less than a week, and apparently more than 10,000 Smartphones...
Update Adobe Reader app for Android to Patch Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
If you're one of the 400 million Android users out there who have installed Adobe Reader app that helps you to view PDF documents on mobile devices, then you should immediately update your app from Google Play Store. Adobe has released an updated Adobe Reader 11.2.0 version to addresses an...
Google Chrome for Android未明安全漏洞
Google Chrome for Android是一款安卓系统上的浏览器。 Google Chrome for Android存在一个未明错误，目前没有详细漏洞细节提供。 0 Google Chrome for Android 33.x Google Chrome for Android 34.0.1847.114版本已修复该漏洞，建议用户下载使用： https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.chrome...
First Paid Fake Android Antivirus App Downloaded 10,000 times from Google Play Store
Well, we all are very conscious, when it comes to the security of our personal information, security of our financial data and security of everything related to us. In the world of Smart devices where our Smartphones knows more than we know ourselves. To keep our device protected from harmful...
Android Vulnerability: Install App Without User Explicit Consent
This vulnerability allows an app to install any number of apps with any type of permissions without user's explicit consent. It is based on two things: 1. You can install an app from Google Play using just the browser, even from PC. 2. An app can embed a browser and automatically login into your...
Android Malware found on Google Play Store mines Cryptocurrencies
Cyber criminals are more business-minded than you might expect. As the business has moved to greater use of mobile and non-Windows computers, so cyber criminals have adapted techniques monetize their efforts. Security researchers at Lookout Mobile Security discovered that various apps uploaded to...
Android Malware Mines Digital Cryptocurrency
On its surface, the idea of turning a smartphone into a cryptocurrency mining machine sounds novel. But practical and profitable? Not so much. That hasn’t stopped thieves from corrupting a number of popular Android applications for just that purpose, including two on the Google Play store called...
Turkish Hacker Crashes Google Play Store Twice while testing vulnerability
Last Weekend Google Play Store was crashed twice by a Turkish hacker when he tried to test vulnerability he discovered on the Android apps publishing system, known as Google's Developer Console. Turkish hacker 'Ibrahim Balic' claimed responsibility for the Google Play Store attack and told 'The...
Symantec discovered Android Malware Toolkit named Dendroid
Android platform is becoming vulnerable day by day and hackers always try to manipulate android by applying novel techniques. In this regard, Symantec researchers have found a new android malware toolkit named “Dendroid”. Previously Symantec found an Android Remote admin tool named AndroRAT is...
Firefox to block all plugins by Default in upcoming release, except Whitelist plugins
The Mozilla Firefox web browser is used by roughly 30% of all Internet users and the company is seriously concerned about the Security of its users for many years. To Improve the Stability, Security and performance of Firefox web browser, Mozilla announced back in 2013 that it planned to enable...
Google and Apple app Store removing all Games with "Flappy" word in Title
After the developer of Flappy Bird pulled the gaming app from both the Apple and Google app stores, it led to the creation of dozens and dozens of Flappy Bird clones that are trying to cash in on the popularity of the original title. Also Security researchers from multiple anti-malware firms have...
300000 Android Devices infected by Premium SMS-Sending Malware
Downloading various apps blindly from Google play store may bring you at risk in terms of money. PandaLabs, the Cloud Security Company, has identified malicious Android apps on Google Play that can sign up users for premium SMS subscription services without their permission and so far it has...
