The second annual report on the safety of the Android platform on 2015 and recently published by Google, opens with numbers that testify to the efforts to reduce the spread of malicious apps. Enhancing investment in machine learning and event correlation, Google has managed to carry on an activity that has allowed us to protect users from malware and potentially harmful apps, thanks to the verification of more than 6 billion installed applications daily. Users are also protected from threats on the Internet and on your device, through the daily analysis of more than 400 million devices, and, thanks to refinements of the safety aspects of Chrome on Android, protection has been extended to hundreds of millions of users, to return the data referenced by Google.
A major source of spreading malware is represented by the same Google Play. The trend compared to 2014, however, show a decrease of harmful apps. Specifically, apps that perform a data collection activities were reduced by 40%, representing 0.08% of the installations, spyware is reduced by 60% 0.02% constituting the installations, while the "hostile downloader" declined by more than 50% (0.01% of installations). The controls in the Google Play are effective results, given that apps considered harmful have been installed in less than 0.15% of devices that install only apps from the official store. I must say that, compared to the large installed base of Android devices, the percentage translates to more than 2.1 million affected devices.
The results change if we take into account also the Android devices that downloaded this app outside of the Play, in which case the percentage rises to less than 0.5%, a figure similar to that seen during the 2014 safety report. Translated into practical terms, continues to be a good idea to avoid downloading app app distributed outside of the official store, because it is higher than the risk of harmful ones. This does not mean that Google has not adopted specific tools that extend the protection even beyond the borders of the Android market. In this regard, the report says:
In the safety report Google remembers the main stages of the path of strengthening instruments introduced to improve safety aspects on the Android platform in 2015. First those part of Android Marshmallow 6.0 launched over the past year and include, among others: total disk encryption request for new Android devices Marshamallow (apply it also to the SD card), app permissions, the system startup, the Android security patch level, support for fingerprint readers and enhancements to SELinux.
Google continues Recalling the inclusion of Android in the program Vulnerability Rewards Program, which rewards the researchers can find and report security holes and bugs, which took place in June, and in August the Mountain View House launched the program update public on a monthly basis to the Android Open Source Project and Nexus devices updates throughout the life cycle. A major crackdown on the subject of security put in place by Google after cases that have had a great echo in the media during the 2015, think of "Stagefright.
Source: Google a caccia di malware Android: 6 miliardi di app analizzate ogni giorno
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A major source of spreading malware is represented by the same Google Play. The trend compared to 2014, however, show a decrease of harmful apps. Specifically, apps that perform a data collection activities were reduced by 40%, representing 0.08% of the installations, spyware is reduced by 60% 0.02% constituting the installations, while the "hostile downloader" declined by more than 50% (0.01% of installations). The controls in the Google Play are effective results, given that apps considered harmful have been installed in less than 0.15% of devices that install only apps from the official store. I must say that, compared to the large installed base of Android devices, the percentage translates to more than 2.1 million affected devices.
The results change if we take into account also the Android devices that downloaded this app outside of the Play, in which case the percentage rises to less than 0.5%, a figure similar to that seen during the 2014 safety report. Translated into practical terms, continues to be a good idea to avoid downloading app app distributed outside of the official store, because it is higher than the risk of harmful ones. This does not mean that Google has not adopted specific tools that extend the protection even beyond the borders of the Android market. In this regard, the report says:
In the safety report Google remembers the main stages of the path of strengthening instruments introduced to improve safety aspects on the Android platform in 2015. First those part of Android Marshmallow 6.0 launched over the past year and include, among others: total disk encryption request for new Android devices Marshamallow (apply it also to the SD card), app permissions, the system startup, the Android security patch level, support for fingerprint readers and enhancements to SELinux.
Google continues Recalling the inclusion of Android in the program Vulnerability Rewards Program, which rewards the researchers can find and report security holes and bugs, which took place in June, and in August the Mountain View House launched the program update public on a monthly basis to the Android Open Source Project and Nexus devices updates throughout the life cycle. A major crackdown on the subject of security put in place by Google after cases that have had a great echo in the media during the 2015, think of "Stagefright.
Source: Google a caccia di malware Android: 6 miliardi di app analizzate ogni giorno
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