A sleek trick to secretly click on ads helped these Android apps evade detection Apps with 1.5 million downloads were in the Google Play Store for almost a year before they were spotted, used a new trick to remain under the radar. In the first frenzied years after the iPad’s ...

Huawei ban: Winners, losers, and what’s at stake (a whole lot) ZDNet’s Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow talk with Karen Roby about how the security and trade brouhaha impacts everything from the future of regional carriers and the bottom lines of tech giants to 5G’s prospects and consumer’s pocketbooks. Read ...

What we know about the new iPhone 11 The launch of the next iPhone is now only weeks away, and the leaks are piling up. Apple and Samsung are the target of a class action lawsuit, after a Chicago Tribune investigation claimed that certain iPhone models and Galaxy S models ...

Cisco published last week four guides designed to help incident responders in investigating Cisco gear they suspect has been hacked or otherwise compromised. The guides include step-by-step tutorials on how to extract forensic information from the hacked gear while keeping the data integrity’s intact. Four guides have been made available, ...

Recently I went to pick up my lunch from Subway. I stood in line as they made my sandwich, and when I went to pay, I frantically searched my wallet only to realize I had left my debit card at home. It was one of a million boneheaded moves that ...

Image: Corinne Reichert/ZDNet Telstra has informed the market it is expecting AU$400 million less in revenue following the release of NBN’s latest corporate plan on Friday. For fiscal year 2020, Telstra is now expecting revenue in the range of AU$25.3 billion to AU$27.3 billion. At the same time, this has ...

Over half of the malware in Google Play comes from click-fraud apps Click-fraud apps drove a 100 percent year-over-year increase in the amount of malware installed from Google Play in 2018. Google has removed the hugely popular CamScanner PDF creator Android app from the Google Play Store after learning that ...

Cisco: DNS attacks will undermine trust in the internet Sophisticated hacking group taps wide set of vulnerabilities as part of their global hacking spree. Cisco is urging customers to install updates for a critical bug affecting its popular IOS XE operating system that powers millions of enterprise network devices around ...

Make sure you’re cleaning your phone the right way. Derek Poore/CNET Smudges and grime cling to your phone‘s screen. It’s really disgusting, but most of us have learned to live with the grease because keeping phone screens clean is hard. Maybe you’ll give it a cursory wipe on your jeans ...

Image: NBN Despite insisting in recent times that it would be cash flow positive in the 2022 fiscal year, the National Broadband Network (NBN) has revealed it will miss that time frame. Announcing its corporate plan on Friday, NBN revealed it would not be cash flow positive until a year ...