Android is open, fick ja!

While Android is open, it's more of a "look but don't touch" kind of open. You're allowed to contribute to Android and allowed to use it for little hobbies, but in nearly every area, the deck is stacked against anyone trying to use Android without Google's blessing. The second you try to take Android and do something that Google doesn't approve of, it will bring the world crashing down upon you.

Schmidt: "Not secure? It's more secure than the iPhone." The answer reportedly drew laughs from the audience in attendance. Although Schmidt apparently did not give a direct explanation, he pointed to Android's billion-plus device activations and stringent security testing.

FireEye researchers have discovered a rapidly-growing class of mobile threats represented by a popular ad library affecting apps with over 200 million downloads in total. This ad library, anonymized as "Vulna," is aggressive at collecting sensitive data and is able&

Microsoft's recently released YouTube application for Windows Phone is being blocked by Google. In a statement issued to The Verge, Google confirms that the application has been blocked for...

There’s been a lot of confusion over the last few days, since bitcoin.org announced that an Android component responsible for generating secure random numbers contained a critical weakness that rendered many Android bitcoin wallets vulnerable.

We recently learned that a component of Android responsible for generating secure random numbers contains critical weaknesses, that render all Android wallets generated to date vulnerable to theft. Because the problem lies with Android itself, this problem will affect you if you have a wallet generated by any Android app.

Recently a new Android banking Trojan that replaces popular South Korean banking apps with malware was found in the wild. This threat steals sensitive information and banking credentials to perform financial fraud. Like other mobile threats in South Korea (like Smsilence), this one uses “smishing” (SMS phishing) attacks that employ fake messages from the Financial Services Commission asking users to install new antimalware protection.

For example, suppose your smartphone is configured to always connect to your home WiFi network with the SSID name “myPrivateWiFi”. Now, imagine you take this smartphone to your local coffee shop where an attacker has installed a malicious WiFi Pineapple. When your device searches for “myPrivateWiFi”, the attacker’s Wifi Pineapple will simply answer the probe request and pretend to be that specific network. From that point on classic man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, such as session hijacking or sniffing, can be performed.

Careful where you point your new headset, Google Glass owners: Like a small child, some graphic images have been known to corrupt the young device's impressionable brain. Researchers at the security firm Lookout Mobile say they developed an attack last spring that could compromise Google's device when the user merely took [...]

With Google Glass wearers popping up all over the place, discussion of the device has focused on how wearable computing and front-facing cameras will challenge our conceptions of privacy. There's been precious little discussion about how attackers will treat the device, and that oversight could could cause big problems later on.

Android's rudimentary backup feature saves Wi-Fi passwords in plain text on Google servers. This is not in itself news, but it takes on new significance in the light of PRISM