If you use an Android phone you may have heard of something called the USSD vulnerability. This allows a nasty piece of malicious software to reset your Android to its factory default settings and ...

A pair of Android vulnerabilities in ever version prior to KitKat could give an attacker the ability to make and end phone calls and send USSD codes using a malicious application. A pair of ...

Last week, we reported how a vulnerability on some Samsung smartphones could wipe a users’ data in just one tap. There are now concerns that this flaw could be exploited on other Android devices, but ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...

The attack that can wipe data from Samsung devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable SIM cards A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung ...

The Android ecosystem got a jolt yesterday with the revelation that simple links — something you might merely open online — could trigger a complete wipe of some Android devices. Researcher Ravi ...

A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, ...

It turns out that the "Dirty USSD" exploit demonstrated yesterday on Samsung devices affects all Android devices running anything below Android 4.1.x aka Jelly Bean. Just to recap, the exploit ...

Whether you’re team Samsung, Xiaomi, or iPhone, learning the Most Useful USSD Codes is like discovering your phone’s secret language.

A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, ...