A group of researchers has examined 13,500 free Android applications to expose the many applications that fail to adequately secure connections using the Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security ...

Thanks to the boom in smartphone usage over the last few years, mobile apps have become the preferred way to do everything from dating to banking. However, while websites are securing data in ...

Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks are “wreaking havoc” on Android users because over two-thirds of the most popular apps on Google Play contain SSL vulnerabilities, according to new research from ...

The CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon today released a list of Android applications hosted on Google Play and Amazon that it says fail to validate SSL certificates over HTTPS. A growing ...

The makers of Fandango and Credit Karma have settled with the Federal Trade Commission after the commission charged that they deliberately misrepresented the security of their apps and failed to ...

Android applications downloaded by as many as 185 million users can expose end users' online banking and social networking credentials, e-mail and instant-messaging contents because the programs use ...

Security-conscious Android users who diligently download malware-free applications from reputable marketplaces are still susceptible to data theft thanks in part to lazy, careless, or otherwise poor ...