Google Booted 700,000 Bad Apps From Its Marketplace in 2017

Google set the record straight on Android security Tuesday, announcing that in 2017 it booted 700,000 apps from Google Play for violating marketplace policies. In a blog post titled “How we fought bad apps and malicious developers in 2017,” Google outlined efforts made over the last 12 months to...

Half of Android Devices Unpatched Last Year

Google said more than half of Android devices haven’t received a security update in the past year, and the percentage of potentially harmful apps running on devices installed from all sources rose in 2016. The numbers come from the Android Security 2016 Year In Review PDF released Wednesday. Whil...

Google Report Lauds Android Security Enhancements

Google has put some hard numbers behind the effectiveness of the security enhancements it has dropped into Android in the past year, and results show that things such as SE Linux SE Android, Verify Apps and Safety Net have cut down on successful attacks against the Android operating system,...