Facebook today released a home-brewed tool that it uses internally to discover security and privacy flaws in its Android and Java applications. Named Mariana Trench (MT), the static analyzer is licensed under the open source MIT license, and is designed to spot vulnerabilities in large codebases made up of tens of millions of lines of […]
The internet giant has decided to share more details on an upcoming safety section that was initially announced in May, and which will be added to Google Play in the first quarter of the next year. As per the new policy, all applications in Google Play will be required to detail their privacy and security […]
Last month, Google removed 25 Android apps from its Google Play Store after discovering they were stealing users’ Facebook account credentials. The malicious apps, identified by security company Evina, appeared to be created by the same developer, Rio Reader LLC, and were downloaded more than 2.34 million times before Google decommissioned them. The apps, which […]
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