From the new one Android Auto, up to the new smartwatches and Android TV, Google had a lot to announce during the inaugural speech at yesterday's I / O conference. But at the same time with its big announcements, the company also shared some interesting statistics on the development of the Android platform.
A rather interesting fact that was announced in the opening speech that struck us because it was about security was the theme των malware και τις προσπάθειες της Google για την “καινοτομία της ασφαλείας” στην πλατφόρμα. Ο Sundar Pichai, επικεφαλής της ομάδας ανάπτυξης του Αndroid, δήλωσε: “Με βάση τα δεδομένα που βλέπουμε, το λιγότερο από το μισό τοις εκατό των χρηστών έχουν μολυνθεί από οποιαδήποτε malware θέματα.”
But what exactly did Sundar Pichai say?
Those who only listened to the percentage and did not attempt to match it with a number would find the event extremely encouraging. Let's see what the numbers say. When we talk about a platform used by one billion users, 0,5% is translated to five million users. 5.000.000 people are infected by malicious software.
Continuing, Pichai said that the company aims to offer security updates to Appliances Android through Google Play, in order to provide security to their users for a maximum of six weeks.
And that sounds quite encouraging as well until we think of the name that has all the new vulnerabilities found by security researchers or malicious users: ZeroDay.
Rather, Google should think much more seriously about Android security unless the number of 5 million victims in front of 1 billion users is considered a justifiable number of collateral losses.
