Participation With Assurance Wireless Federal Lifeline Program Provides Eligible Healthfirst Members with Free Android™ Smartphone and No-Cost Cell Phone Service NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Healthfirst ...

An Android phone subsidized by the US government for low-income users comes preinstalled with malware that can't be removed without making the device cease to work, researchers reported on Thursday.

A Virgin Mobile-branded phone distributed by Assurance Wireless to low-income U.S. citizens has a trojan pre-installed that can download additional malware. Government-funded, low-cost cell phones are ...

There’s nothing wrong with the premise of the U.S. Government’s Lifeline Assistance program. It allows those with substantially low incomes—135 percent or less than the Federal Poverty Guidelines, or ...

A phone sold by the United States government-funded Assurance Wireless comes with two malware pre-installed. The UMX U683CL is sold by the carrier for $35 via the Lifeline Assistance Program. It has ...

WARREN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Assurance Wireless and OmniCare Health Plan Inc. have partnered to spread awareness of Assurance Wireless, a federal Lifeline Assistance program to OmniCare’s 47,000 ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — A company that provides Lifeline wireless phone and internet services to lower-income customers in 39 states now has permission to offer the federally subsidized program in much ...

Malwarebytes has just exposed yet another budget handset connected to Assurance Wireless by Virgin Mobile with the same security issues it found over six months ago. Assurance Wireless is part of ...

Back in January, cybersecurity researchers from Malwarebytes discovered unremovable malware bundled with the Android operating systems on the Unimax (UMX) U686CL, a low-end handset sold by Assurance ...