Apple, Google and other mobile platform providers will present privacy policies for all the apps offered in their stores as part of an agreement with the state of California.
This morning, Google announced some added features to its Google Docs app for Android that will surely make frequent users of the online office suite happy: most notably, the updated version will now allow collaboration on documents from Android phones or tablets. Previously, Google Docs opened in the app were restricted to a single user, but mobile users can now see real-time updates to shared text.
A prominent Australia-based technologist is cautioning people not to put full confidence in an application he developed that intends to provide security for sending private messages on Twitter.
The application, called CrypTweet, was released on Monday, but at least two security and privacy experts have concluded it has major security holes.
Finnish developer Janne Kytomaki said he knew something was amiss last year when he noticed dozens of best-selling applications on Google's Android Market listing the same incorrect author.
Kytomaki ran tests, identified the mislabeled software as a fast-moving attack and published the findings online.
The Samsung Galaxy Note has been out for just a week, but it’s already fallen victim to the hackers over at XDA-Developers. While there are currently no custom ROMs to flash, a user by the name of Da_G has managed to root the Galaxy Note i717.
Unless you’re feeling nostalgic, you probably won’t want to get Windows Mobile 6.1 running on your HTC HD7. Alas, a YouTube video has appeared courtesy of the Dark Forces Team, showing off the ancient OS prancing around the confines of Windows Phone. Yes, Windows Mobile inside Windows Phone, Inception style.
Hot on the heels of its Shockwave and Robohelp patches, Adobe has issued a patch for seven critical flaws in its Flash Player, including a zero-day universal cross-site scripting vulnerability.
JetBrains' alternative language for the Java platform, Kotlin – which the company has been developing since 2010 and revealed in July 2011 – has now been released as open source under an Apache 2 licence. The released tools include the Kotlin compiler, "Kompiler", a set of enhancements to standard Java libraries such as convenience utilities for JDK collections, build tools (for Ant, Maven and Gradle), and an IntelliJ IDEA plugin so it works with JetBrains' own IDE.
Microsoft today issued nine security updates that patched 21 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office, .Net, Silverlight and SharePoint Server, including several critical bugs that can be exploited with drive-by attacks.
Four of the nine updates were labeled "critical," Microsoft's highest threat ranking; the others were marked "important." Of the 21 total vulnerabilities, Microsoft classified six as critical, 14 as important and one as "moderate," a step below important on the company's four-step rating system.
Finnish developer Janne Kytomaki said he knew something was amiss last year when he noticed dozens of best-selling applications on Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android Market listing the same incorrect author.
Kytomaki ran tests, identified the mislabeled software as a fast-moving attack and published the findings online.
