Android is currently the most popular mobile operating system and there is no indication that this will change anytime soon. But it also poses some risk involving the increasing severity of the various security vulnerabilities and malware. Google has just published a safety report for the year 2014, according to which there has been considerable progress in the fight against harmful software.
The beginning of the second quarter of 2015 years is the ideal time, if not the final bell, the publication of any report safety for the previous year. Google boasts in its report, called Android proudly State of the Union 2014 that between the first and the last quarter of 2014 describing the index number of potentially harmful applications installed (PHA) worldwide fell by 50%, which seems to be the result of an excellent course . You have to bear in mind that the Mountain View giant based its latest report on its own definition of potentially harmful applications, so it probably will spiteful treated with considerable grain of salt.
The report created by Google is a public form, 44 –page file, which, according to Adrian Ludwig, the chief engineer. Android security, working in his favor, as it contains a lot of information, which makes it exhausting. The same person adds in his speech, however, that he hoped that next year will include a statement of up to 150 pages, so that the number of parameters examined becomes satisfactory both for developers of mobile applications and the operating system users themselves.
Google ensures that more than one billion devices are protected by the service associated with the Google Play store and is supposed to be caused by more than 200 million security scans a day. Moreover, statistics show that only 1% of all devices running on Android in 2014 had contact with malware, and in the case of equipment installed applications only from the official Google Play store this value is less than 0.15%. The full report can certainly download and analyze yourself, what you strongly encourage you.
_
a: The Verge
Main Photo: etnyk / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
No comments:
Post a Comment