With all these changes, Google reports that ADB Wi-Fi 2.0 offers 66% faster connection speeds (for 90% of connections) and auto-connection rates are 32% higher. ADB Wi-Fi 2.0 can be used with phones, ...

Vendors are shipping Android devices with open port setups that leave countless products open to attack. The port, 5555, is at the heart of an Android feature called Android Debug Bridge (ADB). This ...

For many users, Android Debug Bridge (ADB) probably isn’t a familiar term when talking about Android smartphones. But spend long enough dabbling in the ecosystem’s more advanced capabilities, and ...

ADB Wi-Fi lets developers connect an Android device to a computer without keeping a USB cable plugged in. The convenience is obvious, but wireless debugging has had an annoying weakness where ...

The security community raised the alarm regarding a serious issue last week —that of Android devices shipping with their debug port open to remote connections. The issue is not new, being first ...

The Android Debug Bridge (adb) backup and restore commands may be removed in a future Android release, as detailed in a commit merged into the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) git repository. adb is ...

Developers can connect an Android phone to a computer via USB or WiFi to gain powerful debugging access. Now, one nasty piece of malware has figured out how to establish the same access from inside ...

A new cryptocurrency-mining botnet malware is abusing Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and SSH, according to Trend Micro. “This attack takes advantage of the way open ADB ports don’t have authentication by ...

A utility that lets users customize their Android devices without requiring root access (see Android rooting). For example, depending on the Android OS version ...