Some Android mobile phones are being sold pre-infected with malware. According to a blog post by Lookout’s Jeremy Linden, “DeathRing is a Chinese Trojan that is pre-installed on a number of smartphones most popular in Asian and African countries.” Some of the…
Tag: Android
Mobile phone kill switches
Microsoft and Google have just announced so-called kill switches for Windows Phone and Android devices. Apparently this is a response to a reduction of iPhone thefts reported since Apple introduced Activation Lock into iOS 7. Kill switches are great in principle but…