Symantec has gone back on its earlier claims of a supposed malware app, Android.Counterclank, having infected as many as five million devices. Symantec has gone back on its earlier claims of a ...

Less than a month after researchers at Bluebox Security uncovered the biggest Android security hole to date, Symantec has spotted two malicious apps that are taking advantage of this major crack in ...

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Malware continues to compromise legitimate Android apps, says Symantec, with the latest threat disguised as a version of an actual app called Steamy Window. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android smartphone platforms are more secure than traditional desktop-based operating systems, but are still susceptible to many existing categories of attacks, according to a ...

Symantec has backtracked from assertions last week that 13 Android apps distributed by Google’s Android Market were malicious, and now says that the code in question comes from an aggressive ad ...

Mobile malware remains a small and nascent issue, especially when compared to the scale of threats crowding around desktop OSes, but the threat that is out there continues to mostly affect Google’s ...

Anti-virus giant Symantec has thrown its hat in the ring to keep Android's millions of smartphone owners safe and secure. Symantec has released Norton Mobile Security Lite, a free Android app that ...

Symantec has released a new 23-page whitepaper titled "A Window into Mobile Device Security: Examining the security approaches employed in Apple's iOS and Google's Android" (PDF). It is a technical ...

Hackers are now using a critical vulnerability in Android to modify legitimate smartphone applications, putting users at risk of being spied on. Security vendor Symantec wrote on Tuesday that it found ...

Symantec has introduced an initiative called Norton Everywhere, designed to expand the company's security technology to safeguard smartphones, handle DNS-based web filtering and even protect connected ...

Businesses should take iOS and Android flaws into account when allowing employees to use their personal phones for work, according to Symantec. "iOS's isolation approach has thus far provided a great ...