It is common belief that Windows Phone and iOS is a secure mobile systems, while the Android must follow in this regard from a distance. Time to break this myth.
For the second time Google publishes a report on the state of security of Android. The full report – which can be found at this address – counts 40 pages, lots of tables, statistics and information, but it can be summarized in one sentence:
Security Android finally ceased to be doubtful.
Giant Mountain View from the green robot version 5.0 is serious about security issues, which was one of the greatest weaknesses of Android. Last year, the security level has been raised to a higher level, which resulted in the increase user awareness, because it’s from her should begin to talk about safety platform.
Google has invested in learning systems and systems for event correlation, which Android detects potentially dangerous behavior. We are talking about systems such as Safe Browsing (which protects against dangerous sites), and daily scanning devices and over 6 billion applications installed every day for malware and PHA (Potentially Harmful Apps – potentially dangerous applications).
Once your website Google also significantly limited the ability to reach PHA on user devices.
differences to two years ago, are quite striking. The risk of dangerous install applications from the Play store has dropped by 40% compared to 2014, in each category. Percentage install applications that gather information about the user decreased from 40% to 0.08%. Spyware – from 60% to 0.02% of installations. Hostile Downloader – from 50% to 0.01%. Also increased by 50% success rate warning about the potential dangers stemming from installing the application. What does it mean? That users are finally starting to worry about security, or at least react to the warning.
Safety studies have shown that less than 0.15% of Android devices, which were installed applications only from Play Store have installed PHA. Moreover, even in the case of devices which installed applications from outside the Play Store, interest income amounted to barely 0.5%.
Google report also cites that since last year he managed to stop many of coordinated installation of PHA from outside the Store Play.
Android 6.0 is just the beginning enhance security.
With the Android Marshmallow Google introduced a number of improvements: full encryption devices, the need for allocation of individual permissions for the application, verified to run the device, etc. in August last year also introduced a monthly cycle of security updates that hit the first smartphone from the Nexus line, but as it is part of the Android Open Source project, with these updates may benefit any manufacturer.
Google, however, is not resting on its laurels and continue working on improving the security and stability of its platform. to this end, in June of this year, Android will join Google rewarding discovery of security related bugs. with other Google products users have discovered more than 100 errors.
Google provides all the producers their security mechanisms.
And only from producers depends on whether you decide to use them. Google has implemented the latest security even in its Samsung technology Samsung Knox or BlackBerry model Priv. So if you complain about the level of security of Android, we should have at the back of the head, that at the moment the final responsibility rests with the manufacturer of the equipment, which should use supplied to him by the Google tool.
Of course, an increase in the level of security in Android does not exempt us from thinking.
Security begins and ends with our behavior. At least in most cases. If you visit a suspicious site, we install APK from unknown sources, or make modifications to the software własnoręcznych – we ourselves are to blame when something bad happens. While retaining the basic precautions we can finally sleep peacefully. Google will make sure that nothing bad happened to us and our product.
I am glad that the argument about the lack of security in Android slowly can be considered null and void. Biting through the pages of the report you can see clear progress, which has made Google the last two years and he feels calm, but I also know what to look for when choosing the next smartphone with Android.
Once again, I recommend a look at full report and draw your own conclusions. Mi Another is that Google will protect us against malicious and harmful software. But who will protect us against Google?
To this question I have no answer.
No comments:
Post a Comment