Developers can connect an Android phone to a computer via USB or WiFi to gain powerful debugging access. Now, one nasty piece of malware has figured out how to establish the same access from inside ...

Your phone rings, and the caller sounds official. They say your bank account or government service needs immediate verification. A link arrives moments later. The ...

If you’re an Evil Customs Agent or other nefarious Three Letter Agency Person, you’re probably very interesting in getting data off people’s phones. Even if the screen is locked, there’s a way around ...

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Facebook Inc. has become more than just a social media company over the last few years as the company started developing new technologies to solve its own unique challenges. Some of these innovations ...

William J. Francis recently learned you can run the Android Debug Bridge over TCP. Learn how easy it is to do. As an Android developer, I’m spoiled. I depend on my IDE, logcat, and most of all, the ...

A researcher has found a backdoor, which he calls Pork Explosion, in an Android bootloader built by Foxconn. A leftover factory debugger in Android firmware made by Taiwanese electronics manufacturer ...

Undo Software in Cambridge, UK, has launched version 4.0 of its reversible debugger for Linux, adding support for ARM processors and Android Native application code. UndoDB allows Linux software ...

A utility that lets users customize their Android devices without requiring root access (see Android rooting). For example, depending on the Android OS version ...