Posted on Wednesday, October 09 2013 @ 12:08 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Google Android Security Chief Adrian Ludwig
revealed claims about Android being insecure are totally false. Ludwig claims Google's data shows that fewer than 0.001 percent of app installations on Android are able to breach through all of Android's layers of security, and this specifically includes apps from outside Google Play.
Until now, Google hasn't talked about malware on Android because it did not have the data or analytic platform to back its security claims. But that changed dramatically today when Google's Android Security chief Adrian Ludwig reported data showing that less than an estimated 0.001% of app installations on Android are able to evade the system's multi-layered defenses and cause harm to users. Android, built on an open innovation model, has quietly resisted the locked down, total control model spawned by decades of Windows malware. Ludwig spoke today at the Virus Bulletin conference in Berlin because he has the data to dispute the claims of pervasive Android malware threats.
