Gaining root access to your Android operating system allows you tweak your device in a number of ways, including the removal of both native and third-party applications. Because native applications ...

I just noticed that the App Store app installs applications I "purchase" with it as chmod root. I'm a bit surprised by this, as it does not ask for an admin password when installing, and on a Unix (OS ...

We continue to investigate a phenomenon where normal applications inexplicably run with root privileges. As noted yesterday, this is a potentially serious security concern, as apps running with such ...

Among the most debated questions in the constantly changing mobile application development, whether to include root detection ...

Researchers at U.S.-based mobile security vendor NQ Mobile claim to have discovered the first rootkit designed to insert malicious apps into the install routines of legitimate software to give them ...