The ghosts and ghouls of October have come and gone, but the dangers lurking behind virtual walls have hardly disappeared. The threat of zombie bots is real, and it exists 365 days out of the year.

In many cases, Android's open nature compared to the likes of iOS and Windows Phone 7 is a big advantage. By the same token, however, it can also be a weakness. One such fragility has been laid open ...

Five years ago, researchers made a grim discovery—a legitimate Android app in the Google Play market that was surreptitiously made malicious by a library the developers used to earn advertising ...