According to Cisco report that might make Shocking news for users of the world's most popular mobile OS.
The report said that 99% of mobile malware is pointed at the Android mobile OS, and that 71% of all malicious websites target Google's mobile OS.
The news conflict claims made by Google executive chairman, who raised that news in October 2013 when he told a Gartner symposium Not secure? It's more secure than the iPhone, without quantifying the statement.
Cisco makes the claim in its Annual Security Report for 2014, which also reports that 91% of web exploits target Java and most are attributable to users failing to update the Java runtime to the latest version. In fact, Cisco found that 76% of users of its own security products were found to be running an end of life version of Java.
But the volume of Email spam continues to decline, and the percentage of spam with infected payloads, as opposed to advertisements for casinos and viagra, has remained constant. In simple words, there is less of it, but it is just as nasty.
The news that Android is targeted so heavily will not surprise most analysts. A recent report of the Google Play store shows that it remains populated with copied apps and spam notification. Users are often call Google to sort out its Android app store more effectively, but they had maintained that would go against the open source option of Android. It has, now, start to remove malicious apps reactively.
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The report said that 99% of mobile malware is pointed at the Android mobile OS, and that 71% of all malicious websites target Google's mobile OS.
The news conflict claims made by Google executive chairman, who raised that news in October 2013 when he told a Gartner symposium Not secure? It's more secure than the iPhone, without quantifying the statement.
Cisco makes the claim in its Annual Security Report for 2014, which also reports that 91% of web exploits target Java and most are attributable to users failing to update the Java runtime to the latest version. In fact, Cisco found that 76% of users of its own security products were found to be running an end of life version of Java.
But the volume of Email spam continues to decline, and the percentage of spam with infected payloads, as opposed to advertisements for casinos and viagra, has remained constant. In simple words, there is less of it, but it is just as nasty.
The news that Android is targeted so heavily will not surprise most analysts. A recent report of the Google Play store shows that it remains populated with copied apps and spam notification. Users are often call Google to sort out its Android app store more effectively, but they had maintained that would go against the open source option of Android. It has, now, start to remove malicious apps reactively.
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