+ - iOS has 93% of mobile vulnerabilities, Android has 95% of the Malware. Why?->
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chicksdaddy writes "Symantec Corp.’s Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) for 2012 was released on Tuesday (http://www.symantec.com/security_response/publications/threatreport.jsp). Buried among the data on targeted attacks and data breaches is some very interesting data on mobile vulnerabilities and malware. Of 108 new malicious programs for mobile devices identified in 2012, Symantec found, 103 – more than 95%)- targeted Android devices. Just one mobile threat targeted Apple’s iOS operating system during the same period.
If you assumed that was because Android was the operating system with the most exploitable vulnerabilities, you would be wrong. In fact, just the opposite is true. It’s Apple’s iOS that was the source of almost all the documented mobile application vulnerabilities among the mobile platforms Symantec monitored, including Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and the like. iOS accounted for 387 of 415 documented vulnerabilities across all mobile platforms – a bit more than 93 percent, found.
What gives? A blog over at Veracode suggests that Google may have something of a "broken windows" problem, much like the problems experienced by urban areas in the U.S. during the 1960s and 70s.
"Google is making the mistakes of urban police forces and politicians in the 1960s and 70s, when crime rates took off," the blog post argues: failing to create barriers to crime and turning a blind eye to what perceive as small and inconsequential security incidents, infractions and abuses. That lax security is attracting the attention of those inclined to do ill, but wary of getting caught.""
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If you assumed that was because Android was the operating system with the most exploitable vulnerabilities, you would be wrong. In fact, just the opposite is true. It’s Apple’s iOS that was the source of almost all the documented mobile application vulnerabilities among the mobile platforms Symantec monitored, including Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and the like. iOS accounted for 387 of 415 documented vulnerabilities across all mobile platforms – a bit more than 93 percent, found.
What gives? A blog over at Veracode suggests that Google may have something of a "broken windows" problem, much like the problems experienced by urban areas in the U.S. during the 1960s and 70s.
"Google is making the mistakes of urban police forces and politicians in the 1960s and 70s, when crime rates took off," the blog post argues: failing to create barriers to crime and turning a blind eye to what perceive as small and inconsequential security incidents, infractions and abuses. That lax security is attracting the attention of those inclined to do ill, but wary of getting caught.""
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