There are benefits to rooting your Android smartphone, but it can be a tricky world for beginners. Here are some tips.

A one-tap-wonder app called FaceNiff, a wicked mobile cousin of Firesheep, could allow even a hapless noob with a rooted Android smartphone to hack Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter over Wi-Fi.

Security researchers say free tools like AndroRAT are lowering the bar for script kiddies and second-rate cyber criminals to spy on unwitting Android users.

Vulnerabilities in WeMo home automation devices can be used to attack the Android apps used to manage devices remotely.

Heads up if you own an Android smartphone: A nasty attack has surfaced that can erase all the data on your phone—contacts, photos, everything—with a line of code hiding in a website you visit ...

Hackers have an easy way into one billion Android app accounts, Hong Kong-based researchers claim at Black Hat Europe.

Google has disclosed a now-fixed issue that enabled third-party apps to access a disturbing set of permissions for its Camera App built into Android phones.

A new version malware allows criminals to hack into your banking apps Credit: Getty The new Android "Godfather" malware creates an isolated virtual environment on mobile devices, according to ...

Hack runs Android apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers Google's "App Runtime for Chrome" gets hacked to run on any major desktop OS.