{"id":252637,"date":"2018-03-16T10:13:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T08:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=252637"},"modified":"2018-03-16T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T08:14:56","slug":"android-is-as-safe-as-ios-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/252637-android-is-as-safe-as-ios-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Android is as safe as iOS &#8211; Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s head of security for Android David Kleidermacher said Android is just as secure as iOS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-android-is-just-as-secure-as-ios-iphone-david-kleidermacher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CNET<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Kleidermacher said the Android team is working to reduce the number of security bugs within Android, and said the operating system &#8220;is now as safe as the competition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said their security software improved drastically in 2017, and now protects users from malicious software far more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Google recently published its <a href=\"https:\/\/source.android.com\/security\/reports\/Google_Android_Security_2017_Report_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Android Security 2017 Year in Review<\/strong><\/a> report, detailing the advancements made in Android security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Android security made a significant leap forward in 2017 and many of our protections now lead the industry,&#8221; it stated.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/252627-android-wear-renamed-wear-os.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Android Wear renamed Wear OS<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google said Android is just as secure as iOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":176111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[397,167,691],"class_list":["post-252637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-android","tag-google","tag-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252637"}],"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=252637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252651,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252637\/revisions\/252651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}