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Android malware detection boosted by university research
2014-03-07 23:21:32| InfoWorld: Top News
With smartphones and tablets increasingly at risk from malware, researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a new and potentially better way to detect it on Android devices. The tool they have developed, called PREC (Practical Root Exploit Containment), is trained to uncover aberrant code written in the C programming language, the language in which they say most malicious Android code is written.
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Evernote for Android Could Make the Pen Mighty Again
2014-03-07 07:40:17| TechNewsWorld
Evernote this week launched handwriting capabilities in its app for Android, offering a long-awaited extension of some of the functionality it brought to iOS when it acquired Penultimate back in 2012. "Sometimes there's no better way to capture an idea than to write it down or sketch it out," wrote Andrew Sinkov of Evernote's marketing team in a Wednesday blog post.
New crimeware tool Dendroid makes it easier to create Android malware
2014-03-06 21:28:23| InfoWorld: Top News
A new commercial tool designed to allow cybercriminals to easily transform legitimate Android applications into malicious software has hit the underground market, paving the way for cheap and easy development of sophisticated Android malware. The toolkit is called Dendroid and can be used to create "trojanized" apps -- legitimate applications with malicious code added to them -- that connect back to a command-and-control server over HTTP and allow attackers to perform a variety of malicious actions on devices that have those apps installed.
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Opera adds WebRTC to Android browser
2014-03-06 14:28:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Opera Software announced the integration of WebRTC in its Android mobile web broswer, allowing use of applications such as video chat directly from the browser. With the Opera 20 browser, users can go to sites such as appear.in to get an address for a video conference, share it with contacts and start the call. No special app is needed, and up to eight people can chat from their Android phones or computers, at the same time. In addition to the WebRTC feature, the latest version of the Opera broswer for Android includes a refresh of the Speed Dial design, more options for setting up the browser navigation bars to suit phones or tablets and improvements to the combined search and address bar. The browser is available free on Google Play.
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Adobe's Revel Photo-Editing App Lands on Android
2014-03-05 22:36:18| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
The app is meant to help you store, manage, and share your digital photos and videos.
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