Android is teeming with malware-tainted apps, according to a series of recent stories in the tech media. But common sense and user education can be more powerful weapons than the security… Read more »
The mobile security developer NQ reports that malware infections on Android devices tripled from 2011 to 2012. But the best protection against mobile malware is user education, not the latest version… Read more »
Android has become a huge target for mobile malware, according to new data from F-Secure, attracting 96 percent of all such attacks in the fourth quarter of 2012. That’s a selling… Read more »
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is making headlines for claiming that Windows Phone is less locked-down than Apple’s iOS and more secure than Android. But that kind of positioning doesn’t solve the… Read more »
Juniper Networks is making news with a new report that finds Android malware up nearly five-fold in just the last four months. That isn’t all that surprising, of course, given Google’s… Read more »
Google is making headlines with the annuncement that it is remotely erasing malware-tainted apps from users’ handsets after the tainted software spurred substantial negative press late last week. Google also said… Read more »
Mobile malware has become a very real threat thanks largely to Google’s lack of oversight in Android Market. The company’s refusal to play “app cop” will increasingly take a toll on… Read more »
It’s been a pretty slow news morning in mobile, but there is no shortage of headlines about a reported “zombie virus” that is affecting roughly one million handsets in China and… Read more »