Update: As if the story below wasn't bad enough, later the same day I suddenly got a persistent popup for a "Charging Screensaver" that also, miraculously, promised to increase charging time by 20% ...
ES File Explorer is a free-to-use file manager for Android. It is a very popular application and comes with a lot of features apart from simple file management. And one of these features is the ...
Update, January 18, 2019 (01:15 PM ET): Yesterday, we received word from ES App Group, the creators of ES File Explorer. The company informed us that the HTTP vulnerability as described in the article ...
Why is one of the most popular Android apps running a hidden web server in the background? ES File Explorer claims it has more than 500 million downloads under its belt since 2014, making it one of ...
A hidden web server always running in the background was found by security researcher Robert Baptiste in ES File Explorer, an Android file manager with over 100,000,000 installs displayed on the ...
If you’ve been using Android for a while, you’ve probably used your fair share of file explorers. One of the best for a long time was ES File Explorer, but over the past few years, it’s turned into a ...
Google's Android operating system has many features that position it as the mobile OS of choice for power users (via PhoneArena). One such feature that gives Google's mobile OS such a good reputation ...
Android has long prided itself for how it allows users to dig into most of the file system, provided they have a file manager app on hand. Of the latter, ES File Explorer was once the cream of the ...
Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...
Yolanda Ortiz asked how she could create new folders and move photos into them on her Android tablet. In Windows, it’s all so easy. You’ve got File Explorer in ...
Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Earlier this week, BuzzFeed News reported how apps on the Play Store ...