The Android platform for smart phones has proved to be a money spinner for its handset manufacturers with sales going up exponentially. However, some or the other vulnerability keeps cropping up from time to time, dampening the success to an extent.…
The problem of inadequate security and vulnerability on the Android platform has been dogging the minds of analysts and followers of this platform for some time now. Right from the time Avast made its disclosure about the ‘factory reset’ not…
It is all very nice and great to have the latest smart phone with premium features and of course, the Android platform driving it. After all, the many scores of apps on the Google Play Store and other repositories provide you with access to games…
The fact about smart phones becoming a part of our daily lives is no longer in dispute. Manufacturers – both branded and local are falling over each other to make the best of smart phone technology available to the hungry consumer. Whether it is…
With iOS7, iPhone users received a “kill switch” that could remotely deactivate an iPhone after it’s been registered as stolen. Android users don’t have similar protection (yet). Instead, they have many anti-theft apps that help deter…
A few days ago, Avast released a study on how much data could be obtained from old Android phones. Avast purchased 20 Android smartphones from eBay and ran a simple, cheap data recovery tool on those phones. That data recovery tool unveiled…
Have you ever sold a smartphone? If so, then you probably wiped all data from the device and restored its factory settings. Unfortunately, that’s not always enough. A new study by Avast reveals some scary facts about leftover data on…
A few months ago, Apple implemented a “kill switch” into its iPhone to combat iPhone theft. The kill switch, as you’ve probably guessed from the name, immediately kills the phone once it’s registered as stolen. Does that sound silly to…
At Apple’s most recent presentation, CEO Tim Cook waned on and on about how secure iOS was compared to Android. He even went so far as to call Android a “toxic hellstew” of mobile malware. Android users, of course, know that the stats…
Every casual and hardcore tech enthusiast must be aware of the Heartbleed bug by now; unfortunately, their cloud of paranoia is only bound to expand now that Google revealed that everyone with an Android 4.1.1 device is affected by this major flaw.…
