Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover cybersecurity and entrepreneurship. This article is more than 10 years old. A popular Android flashlight app has been ...

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Flashlight apps are a dying breed. Google began adding them to Android as early as Lollipop, and OEMs have included them on their OEM skins for far longer. The need for this dwindles as the market ...

KUSA - Do you have a flashlight app on your phone? There's a possibility, depending on the kind of phone of you use and the flashlight-app you have loaded, that someone is mining information from the ...

Q. A colleague told me that my Android smartphone’s flashlight app (Brightest Flashlight) is actually malware designed to collect my private information. Is she correct, and if so, what preventive ...

On 1 October 2014, cybersecurity company SnoopWall released a "threat assessment report" discussing flashlight apps for Android devices and security threats they may pose. Although the report was ...

Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of topics from space missions to fax service reviews. At PCMag, much of my work focused on security and privacy services, as well as a video game or ...

A fundamental and downright essential app on a smartphone is the flashlight. There are free flashlight apps for all platforms, and it is often the first app downloaded to a new phone. From the time ...

Many phone manufacturers have taken to including a flashlight app or at least a toggle in quick settings. Although there are still some phones that don’t have one by default. Which is why flashlight ...

This article is written as a response to this commentary by Matthew Rascoff...who never asked for this. In the interest of full disclosure: I’m a co-founder of Acadly. Last week I overheard my ...