WASHINGTON: A burglar flaw has made simple to use for scam artists to deliver phony texting to Android phones with help of any security flaw, a report states.
At the end of October, researchers at Vermont State University alerted Google into a practice called "smishing" that will ensnare consumers in fraud.
Google's security officials confirmed the flaw and promising to take care of it.
Within days that they incorporated a fix in to the latest version with the Android operating system, Jelly Bean 4.2, making available a burglar alarm update for earlier versions.
However for most Android phones, the fix never arrived, as well as many, it never will, the Washington Post reports.
The reason is it isn't clear recognise the business, Google, the smartphone maker or perhaps the wireless carrier that sells it, bears ultimate responsibility for that costly process of getting security updates for an Android device.
Good paper, fixes to known security flaws might take nearly a year to achieve individual smartphones, whenever they go to all.
Security experts declared the condition has contributed to making our planet's most favored mobile computer more susceptible than its rivals to hackers, scam artists along with a growing universe of malicious software.
Breaches remain more widespread on traditional computers than you are on smartphones, which has been engineered to include safety measures not entirely on desktop or laptop machines, experts added.
The report noticed that if there seemed to be a serious outbreak of malicious software, the fractured nature on the heart.} system for delivering updates could dramatically slow efforts to shield information carried on Android phones, including documents, passwords, contact lists, pictures, videos, location data and credit-based card numbers.
At the end of October, researchers at Vermont State University alerted Google into a practice called "smishing" that will ensnare consumers in fraud.
Google's security officials confirmed the flaw and promising to take care of it.
Within days that they incorporated a fix in to the latest version with the Android operating system, Jelly Bean 4.2, making available a burglar alarm update for earlier versions.
However for most Android phones, the fix never arrived, as well as many, it never will, the Washington Post reports.
The reason is it isn't clear recognise the business, Google, the smartphone maker or perhaps the wireless carrier that sells it, bears ultimate responsibility for that costly process of getting security updates for an Android device.
Good paper, fixes to known security flaws might take nearly a year to achieve individual smartphones, whenever they go to all.
Security experts declared the condition has contributed to making our planet's most favored mobile computer more susceptible than its rivals to hackers, scam artists along with a growing universe of malicious software.
Breaches remain more widespread on traditional computers than you are on smartphones, which has been engineered to include safety measures not entirely on desktop or laptop machines, experts added.
The report noticed that if there seemed to be a serious outbreak of malicious software, the fractured nature on the heart.} system for delivering updates could dramatically slow efforts to shield information carried on Android phones, including documents, passwords, contact lists, pictures, videos, location data and credit-based card numbers.
