Malware targeting Android devices has increased, often exploiting permissions that users unknowingly grant. While Android's open nature makes it a target, you can protect your device by carefully ...

Google announced today that support for a recently released Android privacy protection feature would be backported to billions of devices running older Android versions later this year. The permission ...

Google has announced the release of the first developer preview for Android 14, the next major version of the world's most popular mobile operating system, which comes with security and privacy ...

Some of the Android VPN apps available through the official Google Play Store request access to "dangerous" user permissions that a normal VPN app would have no use for, according to research viewed ...

Privacy has always been an important consideration for smartphones, but over the past two years or so, it has become a key component of Android updates — Android 9 ...

With 2.5 billion users worldwide, Google has a responsibility to make its Android operating system as secure as possible. But the company has at times struggled to adequately vet apps in the Google ...

Google is capitalizing on Google I/O 2019 to detail how it intends to make Android app permissions and security better in Android Q, which will, in turn, make your smartphone a safer, more secure ...

Jon Porter is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Android 11’s auto-resetting permissions, where the ...

Google introduced Android XR, its upcoming extended (XR) operating system, for virtual reality and mixed reality-based headsets in December last year. Soon after, Samsung introduced its first Android ...