Android 17 adds a timed barrier around one-time security codes delivered to a phone. Google says the operating system automatically hides those codes from most apps for three hours, reducing the ...

Android 17 also improves privacy after my phone leaves my hands or is stolen. Google says that theft protections such as ...

Android 15 blocks untrusted apps from reading sensitive notifications, even if they have permission to read all notifications. Before Android 15, apps with notification access were able to read all ...

Google is officially ending the frustration of manual verification by allowing Android apps to auto-verify Gmail addresses. Through an update to the Credential Manager, users can now skip the tedious ...

A new side-channel attack called Pixnapping enables a malicious Android app with no permissions to extract sensitive data by stealing pixels displayed by applications or websites, and reconstructing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. A stealthy new Android attack has been confirmed that can ...