The Hacker News - Cybersecurity News and Analysis: smartphone hacking

The hugely popular smartphone messaging service WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook for over $20 billion last year, has reportedly been foun...

Just the way you swipe your smartphone screen is enough for your smartphone to identify you. Yes, it's a Fact, not Fiction! The ...

A critical vulnerability in the firmware of Cisco small business phones lets an unauthenticated attacker to remotely eavesdrop on privat...

The U.S. government is reportedly using spy airplanes equipped with special military-grade snooping equipment to eavesdrop on cell phone i...

China's number one — and the world's 3rd largest — smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi , which is trying to make inroads into India's boomi...

Researchers have warned users of Android devices to avoid app downloads from particularly unauthorized sources, since a new and sophist...

If you are one of the users of the BBC News iPhone app , then you might have receive a strange message as a breaking news notification e...

We have seen cybercriminals targeting PCs with Ransomware malware that encrypts your files or lock down your computer and ask for a ransom ...

After introducing the Fingerprint scanner to its new release, Samsung next plans to add IRIS scanning technology to its future smartphon...

Google always bound to face trouble over the wide and open nature of its app checking policies on Google Play Store, and despite so many...

A new piece of malicious malware infection targeting jailbroken Apple iOS devices in an attempt to steal users' credentials, has been di...

Samsung Galaxy S5 Fingerprint feature promises an extra layer of security for your smartphone, which also lets you make payments through Pa...

Heartbleed – I think now it's not a new name for you, as every informational website, Media and Security researchers are talking about ...

Beware! Hackers can cause Traffic jams with just a navigation Smartphone application. Two Israeli students were assigned by college to h...

Hardly two month ago we reported about the first widely spread Android Bootkit malware , dubbed as ' Oldboot.A ', which infected...

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS) called Drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. Drones were once used for land su...

Google's Android operating system may be open source, but the version of Android that runs on most phones, tablets, and other devices i...