Which is safer – Android or iOS? – Interia

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smartphone Users are increasingly victims cyberataków. Hackers seek best practices and for anyone not use a reduced rate. Which of the two mobile systems is more secure?

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alone Android dominates the market. Up to 88 percent of smartphones sold in the second quarter of 2016, was equipped with a system of green ludzikiem. The popularity of Android is not coming to the attention of cyber criminals. Analysts at G DATA have discovered in 2015 to 2.3 million new attacks on the system mobile. The number of malicious programs has grown by almost 50 percent. compared to the year 2014.

last year, the panic among the owners of smartphones sowed virus Stagefright. His attack was easily impressed to 95%. smart phones with Android. Does this mean that owners of iPhones can sleep peacefully? Not really. Phone nadgryzionym jabłuszkiem have 12 percent. the share of the smartphone market. It is enough to become an object of interest for hackers. In addition, it is widely known that iPhone users much more likely to use the Internet, make payments or purchases online than the owners cell Android. explains Robert demianko with G DATA.

Open, but is there a safe ecosystem?

smartphone Owners very often download apps from the AppStore and Google Play. Both are regulated and checked by Google and Apple, while on the platform get dangerous application. Specialists, as a rule, in the opinion that due to the restrictive policy was safer AppStore. Apple keeps a tight control over the entire ecosystem, from hardware and operating system to applications and accessories. This facilitates protection but does not guarantee 100% safety. This is evidenced by the spread of dangerous viruses such as YiSpectre whether XcodeGhost, which collected information about the users of infected terminals iOS and sent to external servers.

it doesn’t change the fact that greater susceptibility to the different viruses smartphones with Android. The Android ecosystem is heavily fragmented. On the market there are hundreds of manufacturers and thousands of devices, and each of them may have security vulnerabilities. However, Google is developing a new version of their system, but at the same time allows you to change it to users and producers. As a result, these latter form an enriched version of Android that Google cannot update. But the producers themselves do not kwapią for the introduction of new versions of software for old models, thinking only of flagowcach higher shelves. Sometimes there are unpleasant surprises. Last year, experts from G DATA have discovered up to 26 models of Android smartphones, with software preinstalled spy.

Time anti-virus

smartphone Users can’t feel safe. All attacks, regardless of the operating system. Analysts from IDC predict that in the near future works over the past five years the number of mobile Internet users will przyrastać in the amount of 25%. a year. In addition that will increase the number of users, also increasing the time of Internet use on mobile terminals. Their users share information, to share information through social networking sites etc. All this indicates that there will be new threats, cyber attacks will become even more sublime.

However, iOS is a relatively secure system, but users should not forget safety precautions. iPhone is a backdoor to the corporate network, therefore, the operating system Apple has attracted many hackers. And future Android users, draws in bright colours. Criminals know that this operating system will allow them to achieve high profits. Therefore increasing their activity in this area due to the activities in the segment of PC. Smartphone owners should be careful not to download unknown applications, and use mobile antivirus software.