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[http://www.pcmag.com] Reviews News & Opinions Downloads Business Daily Deals Login Register Subscribe Top Categories See all » Trending Tags See all » Follow More Blogs AppScout 'Lord of the Rings: Legends' Begins Its Quest on iOS, Android Forward Thinking Microsoft at Build: 10 Spoken and Unspoken Messages Mobile Threat Monday: Telegram Has Unencrypted Copies of Secret Chat Messages Feb 23, 2015 5:18 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid Telegram is a free cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app for iOS 6, Android, Windows Phone, Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X which lets you send encrypted messages, photos, videos, and file of any type (including .zip, .doc, .mp3, and others) to other Telegram users. Zuk Avraham, founder and CTO of mobile security company Zimperium, found unencrypted copies of the app's Secret Chat message on Android devices. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: Android, mobile security, mobile threat monday NFL.com Android App Expose User Profile Data to Attackers Jan 27, 2015 12:24 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid Vegas bookies may be watching the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots closely this Super Bowl Sunday, but black hat hackers may be more interested in collecting personal data from fans' Android devices, a mobile security firm warned today. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: Android, sports, mobile, NFL, man-in-the-middle Mobile Threat Monday: Fake QQ Messaging App Dec 29, 2014 4:00 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid In this week's Mobile Threat Monday post, Malwarebytes identifies a fake app on third-party Chinese app stores designed to look like the popular QQ messaging app. Malwarebytes calls it Trojan.SmsSpy.qq and said its only functionality is to capture QQ login credentials from unsuspecting users. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: mobile app, Android, qq, fake, mobile threat monday, messaging Mobile Threat Monday: Fake Assassins Creed App Targets Russian Players Dec 23, 2014 10:46 AM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid Criminals like to create mobile apps masquerading as a popular app because it is so effective. The latest such app pretends to be a pirated version of Assassins Creed, according to researchers at Zscaler. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: mobile app, Android, mobile threat monday Unwanted Apps Push Ads on Android Devices, Collect Device Info Oct 04, 2014 12:29 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid While most of the chatter about mobile threats tend to focus on malware hiding inside malicious apps, don't forget about the less obvious dangers hiding inside potentially unwanted apps. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: Android, app Mobile Threat Monday: Why Spying on Your Spouse's Phone is Awful Sep 29, 2014 5:30 PM EST Comments By Max Eddy This week, we set aside calling out malicious apps to discussing phones intentionally infected with remote access Trojans. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: mobile security, mobile threat monday Mobile Threat Monday: Stealthy Spy Android App Goes Open Source Aug 25, 2014 3:32 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid This week, Malwarebytes points us to a malicious app which can add remote administration toolkit functionality to existing applications. What sets Dendroid apart from similar apps is its extensive list of features which lets it exploit Android devices. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: Android app, mobile threat monday Secret Vulnerabilities in Phones, Laptops, Cars Could Affect Billions Aug 07, 2014 8:30 AM EST Comments By Max Eddy The hidden tools wireless carriers use to tinker with your wireless devices are, apparently, full of security holes. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: black hat Fundamental 'Fake ID' Flaw Lets Malware Run Wild Aug 06, 2014 4:27 PM EST Comments By Max Eddy At Black Hat, Jeff Forristal demonstrated how a fundamental flaw in Android lets malicious apps jump out of the sandbox. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: Android, black hat Android Permission Model Sucks Compared to Apple iOS' Jul 15, 2014 3:48 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid We give up quite a lot of security and privacy when we download apps from Apple's App Store and Google Play. We rarely stop to scrutinize what the apps are doing on our devices and with our data, and forget that developers are not prioritizing user privacy when building the app. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: Apple, mobile app, Android, Google, iOS, permissions Outlook.com's Android App Does Not Encrypt Files. Why Aren't You? May 27, 2014 9:13 AM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid If you use the Android app to read and send email from Outlook.com, be warned that your messages are not being saved securely. Didn't we see the same news on iOS devices earlier this month? Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: Android app, business, email, Outlook, encryption, data Mobile Malware Not The Only Threat; Unwanted Apps Bad, Too May 19, 2014 10:44 AM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid When it comes to mobile threats, most people can tell when an app is doing something bad. But a whole class of potentially unwanted applications—PUAs—are a little harder to figure out. They are also lurking everywhere. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: Android, Android app, malware Angry Birds Shares Your Data Far and Wide Mar 27, 2014 4:05 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid Data collected by Angry Birds goes far beyond just displaying ads within the game, according to an analysis by FireEye. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: ad networks Are iOS Apps Riskier Than Android Ones? Mar 15, 2014 9:37 AM EST Comments By Abigail Wang A recent Appthority study revealed that iOS apps are riskier to download than Android ones. Read More » Categories: Mobile Apps Tags: Android app, IOS, mobile security Majority of Mobile Apps Have Serious Security Flaws Dec 07, 2013 1:04 PM EST Comments By Fahmida Y. Rashid Apps frequently have access to data they don't need, or permissions to use hardware and services that have nothing to do with what they do. A recent study shows the problems are more serious than we thought. 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