By Eric Muntz
Read about recent notorious outbreaks of Android ransomware and learn how to protect your devices. The impact of ransomware isn’t isolated to computers and servers. Lured by the ubiquity of smart mobile devices and the fact that most people store valuable data on them, online extortionists are increasingly targeting these gadgets nowadays. Moreover, it turns out that Android, the world’s most popular mobile operating system, is low-hanging fruit when it comes to these attacks.
By Yogesh Sapkale
Mobile applications, especially those available on Google Play Store, are increasingly becoming more dangerous, in terms of the information, they are gathering through access to users’ personal data. For example, a simple app like a flashlight (not many use it due to built-in torch feature of smartphones) seeks as many as 25 permissions, on an average, that are not even related to its actual use.
