There's only one problem with software development these days, according to security analyst and author Gary McGraw: It isn't any good. At the root of the problem, McGraw argues, lies "bad software." ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Commentary--Most people would agree that the best long-term answer to the security problem is to make software intrinsically more secure. Nearly every security breach that leads to identity theft, ...

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In this guide, we’ll show you how to root an Android phone with your PC – it’s pretty simple, but you will need some third-party rooting software… There are limitations that mobile phone manufacturers ...

The author of a popular software-defined radio (SDR) project has removed a "backdoor" from radio devices that granted root-level access. The backdoor had been, according to the author, present in all ...

Despite how long we’ve been developing software and related security and audit efforts, we still seem to be treading water. Cyber-criminals are still wreaking havoc, as evidenced by high-profile ...

Things were touch-and-go for a while, but it looks like Let’s Encrypt’s transition to a standalone certificate authority (CA) isn’t going to break a ton of old Android phones. This was a serious ...

Roku's line of set-top boxes have been popular thanks to their simple controls, large set of available apps (recently expanded to include YouTube for the new Roku 3) and hardware ranging in price from ...

Cisco has released 25 security updates yesterday, including a critical patch for Cisco Policy Suite that removes an undocumented password for the "root" account. This vulnerability, tracked as ...