Google-funded study reveals Android security is a total disaster

[Wireless News]

You can now see why BlackBerry has been devoting so many resources lately toward making Android more secure — it’s clearly an area that needs a lot of work. Via-ZDNet, researchers at the-U.K.’s University of Cambridge recently conducted a study-(PDF) that was funded partially by Google and-revealed that the state of security on Android devices is a complete horror show. MUST READ:-iPhone 6s Plus vs. Galaxy Note 5: Real world performance test (it’s not even close) How bad is this? Because of-Android’s highly fragmented distribution and because third parties are responsible to delivering critical patches to their devices, the researchers estimate that 90% of Android devices right now are-exposed to at least one critical vulnerability. “The difficulty is that the

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