Sunday, April 13, 2014

Google improves security for Android devices - The Financial

Google develops a solution to analyze applications installed on mobile devices with Android operating system to check if any of them is malicious.

Android said on its official blog that currently “Verify apps” service notifies users downloading applications from sites outside the official store of Google in the event that they represent some kind of threat to the.

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signature is under development an improvement that will be available to all users, which continuously analyze mobile devices to verify that all applications behave safely, even after being installed.

said that last year that service was used more than four billion times to verify that the applications were not infringing devices when being discharged.

stressed that after a user receives one of the alert notifications for possible insecure Android application completed only 0.18 percent of the facilities.

indicated that even though the risk of getting a virus is smaller, implementation verification service confirms its commitment to maintain high safety standards on all Android devices.

This includes verification and security applications on that platform.

He said according to figures of security firm G Data, malware against Android increased 486 percent in 2013, with a total of 200 thousand million threats detected. ??

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