Like any other computer, smartphones are prone to some nasty malware, and the latest exploit discovered in Android is equal parts ingenious and horrifying. The last thing most Android users worry ...

Last week news started to make the rounds that Lenovo has published a web page spelling out the pros (and many cons) of PCs running Android. But Lenovo has since removed that website and claimed that ...

Windows doesn’t offer a single switch to disable Exploit Protection completely. You can only disable individual mitigations system-wide or per app. We strongly recommend turning it off only for ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Admit it: the first thing you think of when ransomware is ...

Pixnapping could be used to steal private data, including 2FA codes. Side-channel attack abuses Google Android APIs to steal data on display. Flaw is partially patched, although a more complete fix is ...

Unity has patched a vulnerability discovered in June that allowed malicious code execution in Android games, which could be used to target crypto users. Unity Technology has deployed a fix for a ...

Unity has fixes ready to go, and Valve has released an updated version of Steam, too. Unity has fixes ready to go, and Valve has released an updated version of Steam, too. is a senior reporter ...

A newly identified wave of smishing attacks has been traced to exploited Milesight Industrial Cellular Routers. According to research by Sekoia.io’s Threat Detection & Research (TDR) team, the routers ...

A team of academic researchers has uncovered a new Android security exploit that raises a lot of questions about the platform’s permission system. The technique, named TapTrap, uses user interface ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

A newly discovered zero-day exploit in Qualcomm’s Adreno GPUs put millions of Android devices at risk, prompting Qualcomm to quickly issue security patches. However, since updates depend on each phone ...