You can revoke special permissions that aren't needed.

Not a battery problem, just forgotten permissions piling up.

You checked your permissions. You may have missed half of them.

Malware targeting Android devices has increased, often exploiting permissions that users unknowingly grant. While Android's open nature makes it a target, you can protect your device by carefully ...

Google has redesigned the permissions dialogs that appear in Android. This change appears following the June Google Play system update when applied to the latest Android 16 QPR Beta 2.1. Google has ...

Apps and websites are always wanting more, aren’t they? More data, more privileges, more control. As a result, you’ll often get a flurry of permissions or cookie pop-ups whenever you open up an app or ...

Jake is a cybersecurity graduate with a knack for simplifying complex technical concepts into digestible nuggets of information. Approaching his one-year milestone of keeping you in the loop on the ...

Since Android 13, sideloaded apps have had a harder time getting accessibility permissions. Malicious apps often use them to try to breach the victim’s security and privacy, so Google has focused on ...

A team of academic researchers has uncovered a new Android security exploit that raises a lot of questions about the platform’s permission system. The technique, named TapTrap, uses user interface ...