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Report: if you’re not secured, you should be scared (but really, don’t be)

Posted on October 31, 2015October 31, 2015 by Jules Wang

Halloween approaches. You’re meeting up with friends at the bar, all dressed up for some disorienting fun. So disorienting, you might drop your phone off somewhere strange. If some swiper is so inclined, he or she will have a better-than-half chance of cracking into your phone and compromising your data. Statistically, at least.Mobile security firm Skycure is out with its Q3 threat survey. We can’t say that surveyors didn’t threaten anyone in order for them to take the survey, ...

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Android 4.4 security enhancements may spell trouble for rooting

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

There’s an interesting relationship that plays out between Android security and Android openness. This shouldn’t be surprising, since device security is based around the notion of “preventing certain things from happening,” and it’s difficult to achieve both that and offer unfettered do-as-you-please access to the system. As a result, we get a balancing act between the two, and sometimes that means needing to choose sides, like a tool that exploits security holes, yet gives users the root access they’re after. With

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Here’s Why You Should Root Your Android Phone (Video)

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Taylor Martin

Two terms you hear thrown around a lot in the Android community are “root” and “rooting“. You always hear of all these advantages to having a “rooted” device. But what does it all mean? In short, “rooting” is gaining access to the root directory on the system partition of your device. In other words, it’s similar to granting yourself administrative privileges to your own device. Superuser ...