Adrian Ludwig, the director of security at Android, has said that Google’s mobile OS provides “nearly identical” security capabilities as iOS for “almost all threat models”.<\/p>\n
According to a report by Motherboard<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Ludwig said there’s “no\u00a0doubt that a Google Pixel and an iPhone are pretty much equal when it comes to security”.<\/p>\n Android will soon overtake iOS, he added.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the long term, the open ecosystem of Android is going to put it in a much better place.”<\/p>\n Motherboard stated that\u00a0Ludwig did not mention that Android has been around for over eight years.<\/p>\n Ludwig said Android\u2019s built-in security product called Safety Net scans 400 million devices and checks 6 billions apps per day.<\/p>\n This has resulted in\u00a0less than 1% of Android devices containing malware.<\/p>\n Adrian Ludwig, the director of security at Android, has said that Google’s mobile OS provides “nearly identical” security capabilities as iOS for “almost all threat models”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":175701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[36,397,605,167,691],"class_list":["post-185552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-active","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185558,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185552\/revisions\/185558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0BlackBerry unveils its new Android smartphone \u2013 DTEK60<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"