Even though Google does not have a Heartbleed problem, particularly since-the company has known about the OpenSSL bug a month before everyone else,-a large number of Android users may still be at risk, The Guardian reports. And that’s not because Google has not patched the security flaw, but rather because Heartbleed indirectly benefits from several factors. For starters, Heartbleed only affects one version of Android and that’s the “old” Android 4.1.1. However, that also happens to be a very popular Android version running on Android phones, with as many as 50 million users running it on their current devices. The number comes from analytics firm Chitika, although-Google is only saying that “less than 10%” of Android devices activated worldwide are



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