New Report On Android Security Finds Fewer Than 1% Of Phones Are Potentially At Risk

Using anonymized data from 1 billion phones, Google has set the bar for Android security. Will Apple follow suit?

Google just released its 2014 Android Security Year in Review, an intensely data-driven report intended to bring transparency to the vulnerability of phones running on Android. Its findings: fewer than 0.15% of devices that only install from Google Play had a Potentially Harmful App (PHA)—apps that pose a threat to users or their data— installed. Overall, fewer than 1% of Android devices had a PHA installed in 2014. Apple, Microsoft, and Blackberry haven't released similar figures.

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