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Downloading apps in APK format or even from Google Play carries risks, including potential malware infections. For Android users, the threat of malicious software is a more frequent concern than it is ...

Google is slowly fixing its Play Store problem. We have already seen a cull of lower-quality, higher-risk apps, and we are now seeing ever more on-device monitoring to flag those devices behaving ...

Android apps really do use those permissions they ask for to access users’ personal information: one online store records a phone’s location up to 10 times a minute, French researchers have found. The ...