Viber adds End-to-End Encryption and PIN protected Hidden Chats features

In Brief
Viber, the popular mobile messaging app announced Tuesday that it has added full end-to-end encryption for video, voice and text message services for its millions of users.

Here, the end-to-end encryption means only you and the person you are communicating with can read the content, and nobody in between, not even the company and if court orders company to provide user data, they

Hacking Smartphones Running on MediaTek Processors

A dangerous backdoor has been discovered in the MediaTek processor that could be exploited to hack Android devices remotely.



MediaTek is a Taiwan-based hardware company that manufacture hardware chips and processor used in the smartphones and tablets.



The backdoor was discovered by security researcher Justin Case, who already informed MediaTek about the security issue via Twitter, as

Samsung Get Sued for Failing to Update its Smartphones

One of the world's largest smartphone makers is being sued by the Dutch Consumers' Association (DCA) for its lack in providing timely software updates to its Android smartphones.



This doesn't surprise me, though.



The majority of manufacturers fail to deliver software updates for old devices for years.



However, the consumer protection watchdog in The Netherlands, The Dutch

Serious, Yet Patched Flaw Exposes 6.1 Million IoT, Mobile Devices to Remote Code Execution

As much as you protect your electronics from being hacked, hackers are clever enough at finding new ways to get into your devices. But, you would hope that once a flaw discovered it would at least be fixed in few days or weeks, but that's not always the case.



A three-year-old security vulnerability within a software component used by more than 6.1 Million smart devices still remains

This Malware Can Secretly Auto-Install any Android App to Your Phone

Own an Android Smartphone?



Hackers can install any malicious third-party app on your smartphone remotely even if you have clearly tapped a reject button of the app.



Security researchers have uncovered a trojanized adware family that has the capability to automatically install any app on an Android device by abusing the operating system's accessibility features.

1-Click Way to Check If your Android Device is Vulnerable to Hacking

Vulnerabilities are common these days and when we talk about mobile security, this year has been somewhat of a trouble for Android users. Almost every week we come across a new hack affecting Android devices.



One of the serious vulnerabilities is the Stagefright Security Bug, where all it needed to install malicious code on the Android devices was a simple text message.



Although Google

Using Android 'AppLock' to Protect Your Privacy? — It's Useless

Widely popular Android AppLock application by DoMobile Ltd. is claimed to be vulnerable to Hackers.



AppLock Android app enables users to apply a security layer to their devices, which locks and hides the SMS, Gallery, Gmail, Facebook, Calls and any app installed on the device.



Few of its features are:



Protecting apps either in a PIN number form or a pattern lock

Incomplete 'Stagefright' Security Patch Leaves Android Vulnerable to Text Hack

Wanna hack someone's Android smartphone by sending just an MMS message?

Yes, you can, because Google's patch for the Stagefright vulnerability in hundreds of Millions of Android devices is BUGGY.



Last week, Google issued an official patch for Stagefright vulnerability that affects 95 percent of Android devices running version 2.2 to version 5.1 of the operating system, an estimated 950

Samsung Flaw Lets Hacker Easily Take Control of Your Galaxy Mobile Remotely

More than 600 Million users of Samsung Galaxy smartphones, including the newly released Galaxy S6, are potentially vulnerable to a software bug that allows hackers to secretly monitor the phone's camera and microphone, read text messages and install malicious apps.



The vulnerability is due to a problem with the Samsung built-in keyboard app that enables easier predictive text.



One of

Google Now Manually Reviews Play Store Android App Submissions

Google has changed the way it managed apps on the Google Play Store. After years of depending on the automated app check process, the company just made some changes to its Play Store policies that will successfully weed out malicious and undesirable apps from Google Play store.
Google has introduced an update for developers and users that's sure to make some parents happy and some developers sad.

Researchers Get Trolled by Chinese, Pre-Malwartized Xiaomi Mi4 was Duplicate

Recently a mobile-security firm Bluebox claimed that the brand new Xiaomi Mi4 LTE comes pre-installed with spyware/adware and a "forked" vulnerable version of Android operating system on top of it, however, the company denies the claim.



Xiaomi, which is also known as Apple of China, provides an affordable and in-budget smartphones with almost all features that an excellent smartphone