Research by two universities and a corporate R&D lab has uncovered a consistent pattern by many Android apps of transmitting private information without explicitly informing the smartphone user. The ...

Aaron is a geek who has always had a passion for technology. When not working or writing, he can be found spending time with his family, playing a game, or watching a movie. Researchers from Intel, ...

Many apps beam usage information—some of it enough to personally identify your phone—to marketers, behind your back. Programmers at Penn State cooked up TaintDroid (ew) to reveal the offenders and ...

Looks like TaintDroid just stole the Worst Recent Product Name award away from the Dell Streak. Once you get past the name, though, TaintDroid (that’s hard to type, even) may turn out to be a valuable ...

Something as simple as changing your Android phone's wallpaper or downloading a ringtone could transmit personal data about you, including your location, without your knowledge. Sound farfetched? It's ...

A variety of popular applications for the Android mobile operating system have been found to reveal user data to advertisers, it was announced on Wednesday. The study, conducted by Intel Labs, Penn ...

TaintDroid, a prototype extension to the Android mobile-phone platform designed by researchers, recently identified that 15 of 30 randomly selected, popular, free Android Marketplace applications sent ...

Free Android apps could pose a business threat as a new study has shown that quite a few apps transfer substantial amounts of personal data to third-parties. TaintDroid, a proof-of-concept tool, ...

Worried your Android apps are spying on you? You should be, according to a recent study that found several popular Android Apps regularly share your location and critical phone data such as your phone ...

TaintDroid ‘aint exactly your normal run-of-the-mill Android app: It’s a sneaky bit of software designed to monitor other Android apps, and detect what data they’re sending off to remote servers. The ...