Thousands of Amazon Fire TV devices are vulnerable to infection by a cryptocurrency-mining botnet, Tom's Guide has discovered. The devices are vulnerable because their owners have disabled basic ...

Researchers discovered a cryptocurrency mining botnet that uses the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) Wi-Fi interface and SSH connections to hosts stored in the known_hosts list to spread to other devices.

Hidden in your Android phone's developer options is the USB debugging switch. This useful setting is designed to let Android ...

I have a Dell Venue 7840 that I am trying to get root access to in order to mount exFAT cards in it. I have android studio installed. I also downloaded the standalone adb debug tool and I extracted it ...

While we are all still digging through all the changes in Android 4.2.2, we’ve found one new change that relates to security. In Android 4.2.2 there is a new featured called USB Debugging whitelist.

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The botnet uses port scanning code from Mirai, a first for Android-related attacks, according to researchers. A new botnet that distributes malware for mining Monero cryptocurrency has emerged, ...

Netlab, the networking security division of Chinese security firm Qihoo 360, said it discovered this week a new fledgling malware operation that is currently infecting Android devices for the purpose ...

Last week Google released the latest version of Android Wear, 5.0.1 Lollipop. The latest update entails many enhancements and refinements, but most notable is the long awaited official watch face API ...

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