Two app companies with widespread penetration in the smartphone market, Meta and Yandex, have been caught breaking Android's sandboxing and pass unique identifiers from your browser to their apps. This behaviour violates…
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Qualcomm have released three patches for the Adreno GPU found it a vast amount of Android devices; not every Android phone has a Snapdragon GPU but most do so you...
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It's rare to have good news on Insecurity Corner which is why the disruption of BadBox is a welcome breath of fresh air. Until very recently you could find BadBox present on…
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There are quite a few people that upgrade their phone every other generation or so but that number is dropping. These early adopters should also consider this move as beneficial, assuming they…
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Apparently Cube Call Recorder is a very popular app, with over 10,000,000 downloads on Google Play, used to record phone calls on Android phones. It would seem that either Russia's Federal Security…
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It can be fun to load and configure an Android APK which didn't come from the Google Store, or to grab an app that sounds great from somewhere on the web but…
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The Google App store is once again at the centre of discussions about just what Google means when they say you should trust the security of the Play Store. The original Necro…
Read MoreYou will be pleased to learn that we did indeed get together on Wednesday night (at 10 Eastern) to podcast this week. Here is the edited version of that podcast recording session. …
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If you are using an Android device then here's some good news, as of yet researchers have only ever spotted one specific app that has been modified by the new Snowblind vulnerability…
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There was a a use-after-free vulnerability in version r41p0 of the Bifrost and Valhall GPU kernel driver, which was patched back in 2022. The problem is that when Arm releases a patch,…
Read MoreWe talked at length about various things, some of which were actually the topics at hand! The Apple M3, Android apps on Windows 11, and Roku agreement - or else. Not to…
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There has been a fair amount of coverage of AutoSpill on Android devices, after all a bug which affects the major password managers including Google Smart Lock, Dashlane, 1Password, LastPass,...
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In the past we have seen questionable software pre-installed by the manufacturer which has lead to unnecessary vulnerabilities, Superfish being a prime example. In most cases the software was not specifically designed…
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Buckle down, this is a rough ride. The Project Zero team at Google have reported 18 zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Exynos modems found in many Android cellphones over the past few months.
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BRATA is Android malware which targets people by posing as an app from a bank, asking you to install it in a rather nasty way. It has been spotted in...
Read MorePost-CES is generally pretty light for a few weeks, but not this year! Josh was out sick but Kent stepped in and we had a low-key discussion of the topics of the…
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Android phone vendors like Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Realme have been in the news several times over the years as researchers published their findings about the amount of data that the handsets…
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Considering how difficult it is to pick up a new car at the moment, Ars Technica's look at the Android Automotive OS might be your first chance to take a look at…
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