Rooting an Android device enables you to use the administrator account, bypassing OS restrictions, but it's not without risk.

You can unlock your phone's potential when you root Android and get access to all it can do. But do you even need that much power?

A new report has detailed how some North Koreans are circumventing restrictions on their Android phones by rooting them.

Hundreds of millions of Android devices based on Qualcomm chipsets are likely exposed to at least one of four critical vulnerabilities that allow non-privileged apps to take them over.