Source:- forbes.com Familiarity breeding contempt hits home in the results of a new study into the security threat from apps on Google Play. The research, conducted by the University of Sydney and CSIRO’s Data61, has unearthed thousands of dangerous apps hiding in plain sight in the online store, tricking users by mimicking popular alternatives. The study used artificial intelligence Read More
Tag: Android Apps
Source – infoq.com Google uses a clustering algorithm to automatically analyze Android apps and detect which ones can be considered intrusive, write Google security engineers Martin Pelikan, Giles Hogben, and Ulfar Erlingsson. Intrusive apps are those that require the user to grant a larger set of capabilities than what would be strictly required for their proper functioning. For Read More