In pictures: 10 tips for turning Android into a business phone
Here are 10 tips for turning the Android into a rock-solid business-class phone.
Jeff Vance | 03 May | Read more
Here are 10 tips for turning the Android into a rock-solid business-class phone.
Jeff Vance | 03 May | Read more
A DIY guide to securing Android-based devices
A recently-discovered vulnerability in Skype's Android app could allow malicious apps access to your personal data. Here's what you need to know about this flaw and how to protect yourself.
Liane Cassavoy | 17 Apr | Read more
There's hacking, then there's hacktivism. There's malware, then there's Android Trojans like the latest "threat" discovered by Symantec. Android.Walkinwat is like the Batman of mobile malware -- a rogue vigilante seeking justice through means that also skirt legality, but for a good cause.
Tony Bradley | 01 Apr | Read more
Intel will use assets acquired from McAfee to provide cloud security services to protect the growing number of mobile devices that face malware and cyberattack threats.
The Android world is still reeling from the DroidDream invasion of the Android Market. Google has flipped the kill switch to wipe out apps associated with DroidDream, but the work of investigating how this Android Trojan infiltrated Google, and how to prevent similar attacks in the future is just beginning.
Tony Bradley | 08 Mar | Read more
More than 50 applications containing malware have been discovered in Google's application market for its Android mobile OS, a sign that hackers are hard at work trying to compromise mobile devices.
Jeremy Kirk | 03 Mar | Read more
While devices such as the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android are in most cases welcomed into the corporate world, there's uncertainty about how to fit them into enterprise IT security practices that have been concerned so long by Microsoft Windows.
Ellen Messmer | 28 Feb | Read more
Do wireless service giants such as AT&T and Verizon wield their power to effectively stand in the way of mobile-device security?
Ellen Messmer | 19 Feb | Read more
Early Tuesday morning Norton announced results of a Strategy One survey conducted last September that suggest one in three U.S. citizens have had their cell phones lost or stolen.
Alex Wawro | 09 Feb | Read more
For Android phone users, the newfound convenience of installing apps remotely from the Android Market Website also opens up a security hole for malware.
Jared Newman | 08 Feb | Read more
Inside Secure hopes to make it easier for Android phone designers to use its NFC chips -- or those of its competitors -- with the release of a version of its Open NFC software stack for Android.
Peter Sayer | 07 Feb | Read more
Android-based smartphones are more vulnerable to attacks by hackers and electronic viruses than the iPhone, according to the chairman of the world's largest provider of security software for corporate servers.
John P. Mello Jr. | 13 Jan | Read more
Android users who thought they fat-fingered a text message to the wrong person may be able to lay the blame with Google developers.
Jeremy Kirk | 07 Jan | Read more
Google will put up a fight in response to the patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit that Oracle filed over the use of Java in the Android mobile phone platform.
Juan Carlos Perez and Chris Kanaracus | 14 Aug | Read more