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Google report details the ongoing fight against bad Android apps
Today, Google released its fifth annual security and privacy report. Despite an overall increase in potentially harmful application (PHA) downloads -- due to the fact that click fraud is now included in the PHA category -- Google is optimistic, saying the "overall health of the Android ecosystem improved."
Google's Android security scans over 200 million devices a day
Google has released a white paper detailing what the Android security team's been working on in the last year. Of course, this is the company reporting on itself, but it at least offers an insight into the degree of security threats the company has to deal with. In 2014, the company noted 79 vulnerabilities, with 41 of them moderate. There's also high and critical severity levels, but nothing reached red alert status last year. 73 of these issues have already been delivered to Android's open source project, with six left to be added. (Phone makers and carriers get access to the vulnerability issues so they can patch before the issue is made public.) The paper goes on to detail how security's been beefed up on Google's mobile OS; Read on for more.
