{"id":1209,"date":"2011-01-19T16:19:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2011-01-19T16:19:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:19:28","slug":"android-phones-the-next-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"Android Phones the next security threat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Take it as an axiom that older software is less secure.\u00a0 It’s not always true, but if the code wasn’t mature at the time of its release- meaning it hasn’t been fielded for years upon years- it’s certain to be true.\u00a0 In an article in PC Magazine<\/a>, Sara Yin finds that only 0.4% of Android users have up to date software, as compared to the iPhone where 90% of users have their phones up to date.<\/p>\n

This represents a serious threat to cybersecurity, and it should have been a lesson that was already learned.\u00a0 Friend and researcher Stefan Frei has already examined in great detail <\/a>update rates for browsers, a primary vessel for attacks.\u00a0 The irony here is that the winning model he exposed was that of Google’s Chrome.<\/p>\n

What then was the failure with Android?\u00a0 According to the PC Magazine article, the logic lies with who is responsible for updating software.\u00a0 Apple take sole responsibility for the iPhone’s software.\u00a0 There are a few parameters that the service provider can set, but other than that they’re hands off.\u00a0 Google, however, provides the software to mobile providers, and it is those mobile providers who must then update the phone.\u00a0 Guess which model is more secure?\u00a0 Having SPs in the loop makes the Internet more insecure.\u00a0 Google needs to reconsider their distribution model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take it as an axiom that older software is less secure.\u00a0 It’s not always true, but if the code wasn’t mature at the time of its release- meaning it hasn’t been fielded for years upon years- it’s certain to be true.\u00a0 In an article in PC Magazine, Sara Yin finds that only 0.4% of Android … Continue reading “Android Phones the next security threat?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,17,87,9],"tags":[403,57,362,274,76],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-economics","category-internet","category-security","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-cybersecurity","tag-google","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}