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Adithya Omanakuttan / 14 years

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Rootkit developed for Android Ice Cream Sandwich A research team in North Carolina State University has highlighted a security flaw in Android 4.0.4 which can cause a lot of trouble. A rootkit developed for the OS can make applications invisible. So a malicious app can stay hidden on the device with ease. Additionally, it can […]

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Thinking of rooting your precious Droid? Here’s why it may not be such a good idea

Adithya Omanakuttan / 14 years
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The massive popularity of Android smartphones has brought several features and options of the OS to the public domain. One of these options remains the ability to ‘root’ the device. Rooting an Android phone implies gaining (superuser) access to the kernel code of the software and using this access to improve performance and enjoy/replace several […]