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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 01, 2012
What does your mobile carrier know about you? Just how much information do they collect? And what the hell does it look like? German Green politician Malte Spitz has a brilliant TED talk showing wha...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 26, 2012
The Black Hat conference takes place in Las Vegas this week, where hackers, security experts and representatives from major companies meet to discuss all things relating to information security. If ...
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by Gary Mazo
Jul 24, 2012
With NFC and all your personal information, its time to keep your Galaxy S3 safe from potential thieves and peeping neighbors.
It is much more convenient not to use security options on you...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 16, 2012
Is your Android phone's bootloader unlocked? Is it SIM unlocked? What's the difference?
There's been a bit of confusion in the blogs the past few days over unlocking phones. May...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 09, 2012
The Internet is hard at work debating the merits of the Nexus 7 tablet, and the biggest arguments are about the lack of expandable storage, or an SD card, as you likely know it. It seems like e...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 05, 2012
That was quick! Security researchers at Microsoft and Sophos say they may have spoke a bit too soon about Android phones hosting a BotNet and spamming through Yahoo mail servers. Terry Zink, one of ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 05, 2012
It's been a while since we saw an Android security scare, but the word "BotNet" attached to this one makes up for it. It appears that users in Chile, Indonesia, Lebanon, Oman, the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 02, 2012
As soon as the schedule for Google I/O 2012's developer sessions was announced, I knew the Security and Privacy in Android Apps session was going to be a must-attend session. The Internet and it...
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by Chris Parsons
May 08, 2012
As concerns rise surrounding mobile security, Sprint has now taken some steps to offer their customers some of the best preventative solutions available on the market. Announced today during CTIA in...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 24, 2012
Thermalx, in our T-Mobile HTC One S Q&A, writes,
I thought carriers had about stopped with the whole Carrier IQ thing. But according to this T-Mo doc, the One S has Carrier IQ, any thoughts ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 16, 2012
There's been a new twist uncovered by the folks at The Verge about apps with no permissions accessing the SD card, and to keep the sky from falling we're going to break down what is going on.&...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 11, 2012
The latest in the never-ending story of Android security is out, and this time it's talking about what an app can access if it declares no permissions. (To put it another way, what all an applic...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 03, 2012
Research In Motion has had a rough go the past little while but they're looking to get things moving in the right direction once again and one of the tools they're deploying to help get them...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 03, 2012
The latest update to Path for Android update has now hit the Google Play Store, and this release will be of interest to those who previously had concerns over Path not properly securing personal dat...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 30, 2012
The latest bit of FUD spreading around about Android is that you can't ever sell your old Android phone without giving away all your data, secrets, and possibly the recipe for KFC.
Like ma...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 29, 2012
Owners of Sprint's LG Marquee (a distant cousin of the LG Optimus Black) will be pleased to see the roll-out of a new software update for the device. The new version LS855ZVC fixes one glit...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 26, 2012
The message above is currently displayed on HTCSense.com, informing visitors that HTC's online sync service will be shutting down from April 30. This gives HTCSense.com users just over a month t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2012
Verizon over the weekend dropped word that an impending update to the LG Revolution would include a Verizon Remote Diagnostics app — a "new customer care solution to improve dev...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 16, 2012
Since the earliest days of unofficial Android ROMs, root access and custom firmwares like CyanogenMod have gone hand in hand. However, future versions of CyanogenMod will take a step back from ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 14, 2012
Here's a security and privacy tip that many of us forget about, yet is really easy to manage -- geo-location data in the pictures you take with your Android phone. Modern digital cameras that ha...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 14, 2012
You might have noticed that we're going to talk a little extra about security and privacy this week here at Android Central. It's a discussion worth having. We've asked a few security an...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2012
Oy vey! According to a report from Reuters (via Phonescoop), U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate "reports that applicati...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2012
Let's file this under "anything for a story about Android". The New York Times has decided that Android is also "vulnerable" to apps being able to see your pictures, just lik...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
Youtube link for mobile viewing
Not a day goes by in which we don't get an e-mail from you fine folks out there asking about antivirus and security applications, and which one we'd recomm...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
Carrier IQ cares. Or, rather, for Carrier IQ, it's all about care. The much-maligned California analytics company has weathered the Great Privacy Scandal of 2011 and today at Mobile World Congre...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 24, 2012
Youtube link for mobile viewing
The Sophos security website has reported a new bit of Android malware, and this time it's being spread on Facebook. If you watch the video above, you'll see ...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 21, 2012
Boxtone has been in the Mobile Device Management & Enterprise Mobility Management for quite some time now and with their recent announcement they'll be working with not only Verizon but Moto...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 17, 2012
OK, folks. You've read Jerry's excellent explanation of Android app permssions, right? It's important. You need to know this stuff.
Back? Good. Now it's time for a little brutal hon...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 16, 2012
And how we, the users, still need to take responsibility
There's been a lot of news lately about a lapse in either security or judgment -- both, really -- at Apple that allows iOS applicatio...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 15, 2012
Adobe Flash Player for Android has been updated to fix some potential security issues. The update to is recommended, as it addresses a vulnerability where an attacker could crash the application, an...
