At a time when Gartner estimates that we’ll have downloaded 17.7 billion + mobile apps worldwide by the end of this year, I couldn’t help thinking that Android users are likelier to pay for lax screening in the Android Market than users who are protected by reasonably strict application whitelisting.

Well, it looks like that concern had some justification. There are a spate of stories today about >50 applications pulled from the Android Market

A recent article at http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/1/20/android-trojan-captures-credit-card-details/#ixzz1Bb8RGsWS describes how an attack against Android based phones might be able to capture your credit card information even when you speak it into the phone. The interesting thing about this proof of concept is not that the application can capture voice details, but rather that it uses a second application

The folks at Trusteer got their hands on the logs from some phishing sites and found that people using iPhones are more likely to fall for phishing attacks than users of other devices, including PCs. Some of the findings included: Mobile users get to the phishing site sooner than PC users. Mobile users are 3

The Lookout Mobile Security company is reporting a new trojan horse program that runs on Android based phones. The novel thing about this trojan is that it has enough functionality to allow the criminals to assemble an Android based botnet. This really should come as no surprise. The Android is not a phone with web

Sure, iPhones are a lot more stable than Androids, but there is one place that Android has it all over the iPhone… you get to know what resources an app can access before you install it. This capability, coupled with comments on apps can really help you make better decisions about what you install on

Back in the early 1990’s I had a 386 with 4 megabytes of RAM and a very large 80 megabyte hard drive. That little 386 could do something an Android phone cannot natively do. I could do a screen capture and save it to a file. I thought that for some of my blogs on

This is the last segment in the series. To begin with, I have a question for you… What do you call a device that has a 1 gigahertz microprocessor, 512 megabytes of RAM, several gigabytes of solid state storage, runs programs, can be programmed, and can access the internet? Sound a bit like a Netbook,

I decided to download the card game Solitaire (by ZenTech Labs) on my Android based phone. Being a free app it is paid for by advertising. When you play the game there is always a banner ad at the bottom of the screen. One of the ads caught my eye. It said “Leslie2088 is .7

Installing an application on an iPhone is a bit different than installing an application on an Android based system. With the iPhone you go to the App Store, select your application (and pay if required) then download and install it. For the Android based phones you go to the Android Market, select your application, download

As I previously blogged, there is a serious security flaw in the way that the Android 2.2 OS is implemented, at least on the Motorola Droid 2. If you want to require a password to unlock the phone, and you hit the lock key, it takes at least two minutes before unlocking the phone will