By Mike Moore

Adware Android apps lurked on Google Play Store. Android users have been urged to monitor their app downloads after researchers uncovered a number of potentially damaging services lurking on the official app store. Security firm Avast has announced the discovery of 21 adware apps on the Google Play Store, many of them disguised as games and gaming platforms, which could cause major damage to user devices.

 

By Anthony Merry

If you’ve updated your Apple phone or your Android to the latest version – iOS 14 and Android 11 respectively – you may have noticed that they come with enhanced privacy controls. These new versions allow you to more easily check, and change, the personal information and phone features that individual apps can access. So how about taking this opportunity to give your personal and work phones a mobile privacy health check?