Google Offering Up to $1.5 Million for Android 13 Beta Exploits
In an effort to improve the security of its mobile operating system, Google has temporarily increased the bug bounty payouts for vulnerabilities identified in...
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Google Releases First Developer Preview of Privacy Sandbox on Android 13
Google has officially released the first developer preview for the Privacy Sandbox on Android 13, offering an “early look” at the SDK Runtime and...
Android security: We stopped billions of harmful app downloads, says Google
Google says it blocked 1.2 million apps from being published to the Google Play store because the company detected policy violations in its app...
Google’s New Safety Section Shows What Data Android Apps Collect About Users
Google on Tuesday officially began rolling out a new “Data safety” section for Android apps on the Play Store to highlight the type of...
Android security: Flaw in an audio codec left two-thirds of smartphones at risk of snooping, say researchers
Millions of Android devices were vulnerable to a remote code execution attack due to flaws in an audio codec that Apple open-sourced years ago...
Audio Codec Made by Apple Introduced Serious Vulnerabilities in Millions of Android Phones
An open source audio codec developed by Apple is affected by serious vulnerabilities that have been pushed to millions of Android devices by some...
Critical Chipset Bugs Open Millions of Android Devices to Remote Spying
Three security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the audio decoders of Qualcomm and MediaTek chips that, if left unresolved, could allow an adversary to...
Your Android apps are tracking you. Here’s how to stop them
Duck Duck Go started out as a privacy-focused search engine. It obviously had (and still has) seriously stiff competition with Google. But the company...
Google Updates Target API Level Requirements for Android Apps
Google this week announced updated target level API requirements for Android applications in an attempt to improve the overall security of the ecosystem. Per...
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SharkBot Android Malware Continues Popping Up on Google Play
Over the past couple of months, security researchers identified several applications in Google Play that were designed to download the SharkBot Android trojan. SharkBot...