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For more generic questions relating security issues. For specific issues having their own tags, please use those -- e.g. 'malware', 'antivirus', 'privacy', 'lost-phone'. Please see the full tag wiki for more. For more in-depth Android security issues, you might rather want to visit our sister-site at http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/android
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Locating a stolen phone with Android Device Manager
No. Once it's factory-reset or even flashed, the Android Device Manager is no longer able to find it.
Background: Android Device Manager uses your Google account to communicate with the device. Moreo …
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How i can protect my android from Master Key Vulneralability?
Bluebox Security Scanner.
To close the vulnerability, your device needs root access. If that pre-condition is given, there are different fixes available, e.g. … Master Key dual fix (a module for the xposed-framework)
Master-Key Security Patch (again a module for Xposed)
ReKey (a stand-alone app) …
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Samsung S7 hacked and running some FTP server?
(Note: at the time this answer was written, only the first screenshot was present in the question post.)
Your screenshot shows details of some app you've selected. More specifically: it shows the per …
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How to secure phone for repair shop?
Doing a factory reset and full storage clean is the way to go here. Service will not fiddle with kiosk apps or the like. To my experience, they wipe your device anyway – so make a good backup and wipe …
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How can I erase whole phone securely?
For a real safe delete of all data on the device, a simple factory-reset won't do: data might still be recoverable if one takes the efforts required for such a data-recovery. So I'd recommend taking a …
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Securing Memory Card?
You could use encryption on the entire drive. This can be done with certain apps like EDS (which creates an encrypted container on the device, which requires a password to be opened -- but after that …
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WiFi Hotspot Security?
article on e-how.com, this app also features a mac-filter, allowing you to exactly define which devices are permitted on your hotspot:
Wireless Tether provides WPA encryption, the latest wireless security …
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Delete Status bar Icon downloaded from web
The app should at least be found in Settings → Apps → Manage Apps, where you should be able to uninstall it. Alternatively you can visit the Playstore website, log in with your credentials, go to "My …
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How can I protect my photos from Apps?
I'm afraid there is no real protection possible, for multiple reasons:
as you stated, all apps can read everywhere on the SDCard. This does not require any special permission
apps with the INTERNET …
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Disable camera capture button?
You could consider using an app locker, e.g. Smart AppLock (App Protector). Photos are taken by the camera app, regardless of whether you invoke it from the app drawer, a shortcut, widget, or via pres …
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Checking virus/security status of specific app?
Though I know of no definite way, I'd suggest looking them up on AppBrain. Additionally to the "Permissions" tab we had in playstore before their "Win-8 relaunch", that site offers a tab "Permissions …
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Suspicious directory ".MySecurityData" in internal storage
Using the ls command, you can find out the owner (and group) of those directories. Following this with a ls on /data, and watching out for the same ownership, you should find only one hit, reveaing th …
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Provably, temporary, disable wireless networking on Android tablet
As no "bullet-proof" system is required here, and at least some level of trust assumed, possible solutions hide behind the buzz... ahem, key-words kiosk-mode and child-protection. In short: you create …
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wave hand & lock phone automatically
I cannot promise that any of these solutions work on your device, but there are several apps listed which seem to be able to achieve this, as e.g. Air Gesture Control or Wave Control. Just try a searc …
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Heartbleed check for Android App
must know about the security hole and how to check for it, and thus requires knowledge about that. … Linked list category also holds some security suites covering multiple exploits and security risks, which might be a good choice to check if you're interested how it stands about security with your device …
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