Last week I wrote about an Android bug that would allow Samsung Galaxy S III to be wiped remotely just by visiting a malicious website. It has since been reported that a number of other Android ...

If you use an Android phone you may have heard of something called the USSD vulnerability. This allows a nasty piece of malicious software to reset your Android to its factory default settings and ...

This security flaw allows cybercriminals to potentially take control of millions of unprotected Android-based smartphones, essentially any device running Android 4.1.x or lower, through a text message ...

The Android ecosystem got a jolt yesterday with the revelation that simple links — something you might merely open online — could trigger a complete wipe of some Android devices. Researcher Ravi ...

A pair of Android vulnerabilities in ever version prior to KitKat could give an attacker the ability to make and end phone calls and send USSD codes using a malicious application. A pair of ...

A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...

The attack that can wipe data from Samsung devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable SIM cards A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung ...

It turns out that the "Dirty USSD" exploit demonstrated yesterday on Samsung devices affects all Android devices running anything below Android 4.1.x aka Jelly Bean. Just to recap, the exploit ...

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ESET, the leader in proactive protection celebrating 25 years of its technology this year, today announced the release of a special free app, ESET USSD Control, ...