Symantec’s Security Response team has published an analysis of a malware that targets Android users for personal information. The malware is known as Android.Exprespam, and though it was discovered only recently, analysis have shown that scammers are having a lot of success with the malware.The malware installs a fake market called Android Express’s Play, which has drawn over 3,000 visits a week from January 13 to January 20, resulting in the potential theft of between 75,000 to 450,000 … more
One of the major problems with Google's policy to let smartphone manufacturers handle hardware for their Android platform is fragmentation. Smartphone manufacturers are in control of if and when users will be getting new operating system upgrades.Android site, Android version 2.3 which was named Gingerbread still remains the most commonly used Google OS with almost 50 percent of Android users still utilizing the platform. But over the holiday period at the end of 2012, a lot of the users … more