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Google Play faces cat and mouse game with sneaky Android malware

27

Mar

2017

What’s the best way to avoid Android malware? Downloading all your apps from the Google Play store — where software is vetted – is perhaps the best advice. But that doesn’t mean Google Play is perfect. Security researchers do find new Android malware lurking on Google’s official app store. That’s because hackers are coming up with sneaky ways to infiltrate the platform, despite the vetting processes that protect it.

Category Application security Malware Written by Cio 0 Comments

IDG Contributor Network: iOS: Should Apple control stalkerware?

06

Dec

2016

Stalkerware is the latest label given to some apps in the iOS App Store. Stalkerware apps only offer “Always” or “Never” for location tracking, and that has some iOS users very upset because they feel that their privacy is being violated by these kinds of apps. A writer at Medium recently weighed in with a […]

Category Tracking Written by Cio 0 Comments

Apple to Remove 256 iOS Apps Using Private APIs, Collecting Personal Data

20

Oct

2015

#apple said it will remove 256 misbehaving #apps from its #app store that were using private APIs to pull personal and device information that would allow a user to be tracked. SourceDNA, an analytics company that specializes in studying the iOS and Android mobile app stores, privately disclosed to Apple a list of the #offending apps. […]

Category Mobile security Vulnerabilities Written by Threatpost 0 Comments

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