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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This code displays the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number of your Android phone, a unique identifier essential for identifying your device. This code shows the Specific Absorption ...
A security research team at the Ekoparty Security Conference has demonstrated a single line of USSD code that can be used to completely reset a Samsung S III handset and ‘kill’ the owners SIM card in ...