No one is updating their Android devices, new data shows
It’s typically good advice to patch early and often. What’s said less often is that most of the time it just isn’t happening. Duo Security has new data to back that up: The company released a study Wednesday finding 90 percent of over 10.7 million Android devices across the U.S. and Western Europe are running outdated versions of the operating system. Additionally, only 8 percent of Android phones ran the latest security patch, according to the report. It’s a significant gap that’s due in large part to Android’s enormous, fractured ecosystem. Users often receive updates haphazardly through their carriers or phone manufacturers, and that’s if they get them at all. Attackers often take advantage of this, with new malware frequently popping up that preys on old Android models. Even as Android’s competitor Apple is doling out patches through its App Store, there is an significant gap in users updating to […]
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