Sunday, July 3, 2016

Buy an Android? “Only” Nexus or Samsung says company – Pplware

Android is, today, the most popular operating system world. There are many manufacturers that include this mobile platform on their devices, because it is an open, quite popular system and probably has the best application store.

But if the user searches for Android smartphones safer market, so the choice should fall on a device Nexus or Samsung line, says a security company.

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Gal Beniamini, a well-known researcher of the area of ​​security, discovered and demonstrated a vulnerability affecting certain Android devices with Snapdragon SoC. In practice, this attack can “stick / ignore” the security mechanism at the level of encryption.

Given the number of smartphones have not yet received the May security update, it is estimated that 57 % of Android devices around the world are vulnerable

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according to the company Duo security Labs, 75% of Samsung Galaxy S6 and Nexus devices have received the May update. The company also alerts users to that evil have the update available, proceed to updating, even recommending that always buy a Nexus line of equipment or else a Samsung smartphone.

As always, we find the only Android devices That We can recommend without major reservations are Nexus and, now, Samsung devices, They provided keep releasing those security updates quickly.

As is common in the Android world, updates always take a long time to be released and for some equipment, never get to be available. This has been one of the problems that has always affected the equipment with Android, and there seems to be a general solution in sight.

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