Showing posts with label verify. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Google prepping improved Verify Apps feature to beef up Android security

Heads up, Android users, because your little green robot is about to get quite a bit more secure. A new report from Computerworld  has revealed that Google is planning to roll out an update to Google Play Services in the coming weeks that will beef up Android's Verify Apps feature. Verify Apps originally debuted with Android 4.2 in 2012 as a feature that checks new apps as they're installed to ensure that they don't contain any malicious code or other nastiness. Last year, Google rolled its Verify Apps feature out to...