Spammers are impersonating well-known Android software developers in order to distribute rogue apps through the official Android Market. Security researchers from antivirus firm Trend Micro have identified a developer named Rovio MobiIe Ltd. in the Android Market, which had a significant number of rogue applications in its portfolio. Some users…
Evolving Malware Shows How Evil Apps Will Evade Detection
Just a few days after Google announced new safeguards against malicious apps in its Android Market, one researcher is already offering a helpful reminder that the mobile malware cat-and-mouse game is just getting started. Last Friday, North Carolina State University professor Xuxian Jiang wrote on his blog that his team…
Evolving Malware Shows How Evil Apps Will Evade Detection
Just a few days after Google announced new safeguards against malicious apps in its Android Market, one researcher is already offering a helpful reminder that the mobile malware cat-and-mouse game is just getting started. Last Friday, North Carolina State University professor Xuxian Jiang wrote on his blog that his team…
Evolving Android Malware Shows How Evil Apps Will Evade Google’s Scans
Just a few days after Google announced new safeguards against malicious apps in its Android Market, one researcher is already offering a helpful reminder that the mobile malware cat-and-mouse game is just getting started. Last Friday, North Carolina State University professor Xuxian Jiang wrote on his blog that his team…
Google reveals Android malware ‘Bouncer,’ scans all apps
Google yesterday unveiled an automated system that scans Android apps for potential malware or unauthorized behavior, a move critics have long called the company to make. The scanning service, appropriately codenamed “Bouncer,” has been in action “a number of months,” said Hiroshi Lockheimer, the vice president of engineering for Android,…
Google’s Bouncer For Android Shows Malware Apps the Door
Bouncer scanning software, developed by Google, is designed to search the Android market for software that could be malicious, the company announced Thursday on its blog. With the success of Android this year, the company says it wants to protect its many users and their devices from harm. [More from…
Google’s Bouncer For Android Shows Malware Apps the Door
Bouncer scanning software, developed by Google, is designed to search the Android market for software that could be malicious, the company announced Thursday on its blog. With the success of Android this year, the company says it wants to protect its many users and their devices from harm. [More from…
Google now scanning Android apps for malware
Google has added an automated scanning process that is designed to keep malicious apps out of the Android Market, the company announced today. The new service, code-named “Bouncer,” scans apps for known malware, spyware, and Trojans, and looks for suspicious behaviors and compares them against previously analyzed apps, Hiroshi Lockheimer,…
Dubious Android apps may not be malware–just ads
This is one of the Android apps that Symantec labeled as “malware” but which ICSA Labs says is really just an ad-based app. Symantec may have mistakenly labeled more than a dozen Android apps as malware, according to security researchers at Verizon-affiliated ICSA Labs. It’s an easy mistake to make,…
Politics 2012: Of sweaters, apps and polls
By NICOLE DEBEVEC United Press International You too, can have a sweater vest like the one Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum wears. Better voter targeting through technology. Some comic relief in a poll. No love lost for Iowa, New Hampshire. View full post on politics hacker – Yahoo! News Search…