Explains why accessibility toolkits are an attack surface.

Take a few quick steps to ramp up your phone’s privacy protections.

Android app that analyzes other Android apps for hidden/embedded trackers.

Android users are being reminded to be careful about the files they open on their smartphones, after the discovery that harmless-looking image files could be harbouring malicious code.

Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users and logged-out users outside its platform through Facebook Business Tools. App developers share data with Facebook through the Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK), a set of software development tools that help developers build apps for a specific operating system. Using the free and open source software tool called "mitmproxy", an interactive HTTPS proxy, Privacy International has analyzed the data that 34 apps on Android, each with an install base from 10 to 500 million, transmit to Facebook through the Facebook SDK.

The bad guys are increasingly using potentially unwanted applications to sneak past security defences, warns Sophos Labs