If your Android phone is running an earlier version to Android 4.4.4 , patches Android security will never come to your device, leaving it unprotected.
He explains Google in its annual study regarding updates throwing periodically to patch bug or problems security. of the more than 1,000 million active devices worldwide and running some version of Android, only 70.8 percent is compatible with security updates, highlights the company.
But Google does what you can. in the same study compared to the figures of 2015, the search giant recognizes about 60,000 different devices running Android, so it is difficult to issue a security update for all those devices that are divided up into ten different versions Android.
Nevertheless, Google is leading the effort to issue regular patches, starting with the product line AOSP and Nexus, which have clean or pure Android versions without any modification by the manufacturers and who are the first to receive patches.
In addition, Google says are reviewed in search of malware 6,000 million applications installed on your platform daily.
The company also notes that in 2015 noted that the installation of malware fell 40 percent to 0.08; the installation of spyware fell 60 percent to 0.02; the installation of a hostile program that masquerades dropped from 50 to 0.01 percent.
The Android bug bounty program, which began last June and allows researchers to locate bug in Android and receive monetary rewards, has also been successful. 58 researchers tracked 69 percent of bug critical in 2015, so Google paid them US $ 210.161.
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