New Play Store warning affects millions. AFP via Getty Images Update: Republished on April 30 with a raft of new Android security warnings for both personal and enterprise users. Google has quietly changed how apps run on your phone. Starting next month, the Android-maker will let apps work differently depending on your phone. The bad … Read more
New Play Store warning affects millions. AFP via Getty Images Update: Republished on April 29 with major Play Store change as apps are removed. Google has quietly changed how apps run on your phone. Starting next month, the Android-maker will let apps work differently depending on your phone. The bad news is this could see … Read more
Do not take these risks. getty Google’s mission to secure Android continues, narrowing the gap to iPhone. But that can never fully succeed unless and until user behaviors change. That’s the stark takeaway from Google’s update this week, and it must be taken seriously. Google says that last year its “AI-powered threat detection and other … Read more
Your photos are now being scanned getty Republished on February 26 with Google’s response to this photo scanning furor. You may recall Apple’s un-Apple-like moment a few weeks ago, when users discovered their photos were being scanned by Apple Intelligence to match landmarks. Users had not been told, and it caused a furor with security … Read more
Pixels are locking down dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Google’s latest Android lockdown continues to narrow the gap to iPhone. But more critically, we are now seeing a significant difference between what comes to its own Pixel devices — and when it comes — versus the rest of the Android ecosystem. The Pixel offering is … Read more
Update now warning for all Pixel owners dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Google kicked off February with its first serious Android alert of the year — a critical vulnerability which it warned was being exploited in the wild. Put more simply, Android devices are being attacked. The good news for Pixel owners is the Android … Read more
New Samsung attack threat revealed AFP via Getty Images Exciting times for Galaxy flagship owners, with the excellent Android 15 upgrade due to be released in just a few weeks, alongside the launch of the new S25. The new OS brings a raft of security and privacy enhancements as Samsung narrows the gap to iPhone, … Read more
New Android warning hits 750 million users. getty Google is on a mission to close the gap to iPhone, with a raft of new Android security features now hitting devices as some of the yawning gaps in its security are finally closed. But the ecosystem is far from protected, and there are now more than … Read more