Android Devices Are at Risk of Data Theft (2020)
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#2I dont LOVE walled gardens but has there been any exposure of this scale in IOS devices?
Re: Android Devices Are at Risk of Data Theft (2020)
#3From August 2020.
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#4https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins/...
This happened months ago but I still can't see much info. Also, I see check point reported 4-5 issues to qcomm, not 400.
To people complaining android never gets updates: Android has been providing monthly security updates for some years now. It is even possible that this was fixed even faster since modern android can update some system libraries right from the store (Project Treble announced in 2017)
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#5I dont LOVE walled gardens but has there been any exposure of this scale in IOS devices?
Apple doesn't have a spotless record with security. However, they are significantly better at pushing updates. A large majority of eligible iOS devices install OS updates, and iOS devices tend to be eligible for updates for many years.
Additionally, because sales are much lower for iOS than Android, it's hard to get to the same scale. I don't know about iPad numbers, but 1 billion iPhones is about 5 years of sales, and five years is around where Apple stops providing updates (edit: as pointed out below, they're doing closer to 8 years from release now, but not all sales are from current model phones) and that combines with other factors and very few devices make it past five years of use.
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#6I dont LOVE walled gardens but has there been any exposure of this scale in IOS devices?
This sort of things happen all the time in both camps. It's just that Android security is more open and visible to ordinary people.
Apple _just_ patched some really big zero-days.
Update: since this is getting down voted be skeptics, here are some sources for you
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-fixes-2-io...
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apple-fixes-m...
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apple-fixes-a...
Re: Android Devices Are at Risk of Data Theft (2020)
#7 400 vulnerabilities! Good luck getting any reasonable percentage of users to install these patches. The software update situation on Android is horrible.Re: Android Devices Are at Risk of Data Theft (2020)
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#9The duration and quality of security updates/fixes is roughly commesurate with the price users paid for the s/w part of their mobile devices.
That's pretty cool - you can pay almost nothing for the s/w and still get a phone that works.
Re: Android Devices Are at Risk of Data Theft (2020)
#10The duration and quality of security updates/fixes is roughly commesurate with the price users paid for the s/w part of their mobile devices. That's pretty cool - you can pay almost nothing for the s/w and still get a phone that works.
Alternatively, i bought my Google phone for 1000 dollars 3 years ago and get zero updates now. That's pretty sorry.