Protecting Your Privacy: App Ops, Privacy Guard, and XPrivacy
After yesterday’s article about Google’s recent changes to the Play Store that post a number of privacy concerns for users, today we are going to look at the three most popular options for users to...
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The Google Pixelbook has a hardware Universal Two Factor Authentication (U2F)...
Every year there are a handful of websites that get hacked. In some instances, the passwords weren’t protected properly to begin with. This results in millions of usernames, email addresses, and...
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Capillary is an open source library to help developers implement end-to-end...
If you’re a developer that implements push notifications in your app and you or your users care about data privacy, then it’s important that you transmit these push messages securely. For those of you...
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Blackphone Gets Rooted, Qualcomm Security Exploits Affect Moto X, Nexus 5, LG...
The “secure” Blackphone has been rooted! That and much more news is covered by Jordan when he reviews all the important stories from this week. Included in this week’s news is the Qualcomm Security...
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Qualcomm Security Exploit Demonstrated at Blackhat Conference
The annual Blackhat conference, now in its 17th year, took place in Las Vegas last week. The conference is an assembly of security-focused individuals at which a number of devices such as home...
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Verizon G Pad 8.3 Gets KitKat, Android Fake ID Vulnerability Fixed with...
Android 4.4.3 KitKat has been released for the Verizon G Pad 8.3! That and much more news is covered by Jordan when he reviews all the important stories from this weekend. Included in this week’s news...
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Fight off the Android Fake ID Vulnerability with Xposed
While Android is considered a pretty stable and safe operating system, there are some vulnerabilities that pop up from time to time. Some of them are pretty nasty, and force Google to release a minor...
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Google Project Zero Aims to Keep the Internet Safe
Software is never completely secure. If you think otherwise, you are in for a rude awakening. Every now and then, hackers will find a way to take control of an app or expose private data–for money,...
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Android Security Engineer Dario Incalza to Talk Android Security at...
We’ve already reported on two of the speakers scheduled for XDA:DevCon 2014. Sony’s Alin Jerpelea and Mozilla’s Alex Lakatos are joining us, as we go international with xda:devcon ’14. If you haven’t...
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Exclusive: Android L to Add Granular Permissions Prompts
With the announcement of Android L now finished at Google I/O, there are still a number of unanswered questions as to what’s actually likely to be coming in Android L. We mentioned some of the changes...
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Application Signature Verification: How It Works, How to Disable It with...
If you’ve ever tried to modify and reinstall a system application, you probably encountered application signature checks in one form or another. Either you removed the original app before proceeding,...
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BlueBox Security Vs Xiaomi, Who is in the Wrong?
Several days ago security firm BlueBox released a worrying report highlighting security flaws and privacy concerns with Xiaomi’s Mi 4 phone, however several points in the article gave cause for concern...
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Cross-Platform Encrypted Messaging with Signal 2.0
Privacy and security are two increasingly important factors in today’s globalized world, and with the surge of internet spying by government agencies and third parties, wiretaps are an everyday thing...
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Invoke Cerberus To Protect Your Phone From Thieves
Most of us have experienced that feeling at some point, you reach for your phone but it’s not there. What follows is usually an increasingly rapid patting of all your pockets and a rising feeling of...
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Fingerprint Authentication – Just a Plain Bad Idea
A growing number of smartphones are adding fingerprint reading hardware, to attempt to add a differentiating factor in an increasingly crowded marketplace, and to attempt to offer users more convenient...
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Signing Tool for Kindle Fire HDX Exploits Bootloader
What happens when an Android-related vulnerability is published on a website like the CodeAurora Forum? You got it! Security enthusiasts and Android developers around the world try to take advantage of...
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Android Security Overview and Safe Practices for Web-Based Android...
So far, we’ve talked about many things while presenting the videos from XDA:DevCon 2014. We’ve talked about robotics with Android, Robotics and Vision Oh My! w/ Shane Francis, open source with AOSP for...
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Detect, Avoid IMSI-Catcher Attacks with Android IMSI-Catcher Detector
Privacy is always an important topic, as well as a delicate one to cover. Corporations spend millions to provide the best security systems, which are then quite often cracked by hackers or security...
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WhatsApp Decides to Protect Your Data
When Facebook bought WhatsApp for the absurdly large sum of $19bn back in February, they took the tech world by storm. $19bn for a FREE messaging app? A messaging app? Really? Soon afterwards,...
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Android L Will Have Data Encryption Turned On by Default
Android L, once it is eventually released, will feature data encryption turned on by default. This information has been revealed by Niki Christoff, spokeswoman for Google. And in doing so, the Mountain...
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