The operating systems most used in smartphones, Android, this day celebrates the birthday of the 10th. Google's operating system was first present at smartphone with HTC G1 model or known by the name of HTC Dream with Android 1.0. OS that was full of bugs, so now one of the most popular OS in the world.
The operating systems most used in smartphones, Android, this day celebrates the birthday of the 10th.
Google's operating system was first present at smartphone with HTC G1 model or known by the name of HTC Dream with Android 1.0. OS that was full of bugs, so now one of the most popular OS in the world.
Cause Android so very popular, one of which is the software update fast enough especially for the flagship series, such as the Motorola Droid and the Samsung Galaxy s.
As Engadget, Monday quoted (24/9/2018), Android became popular since the end of 2010, while the upgrades done to the extent it still competitors-that's it.
If previous iPhone beat Symbian OS, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile lagged thus far of Android.
Therefore, many vendors of mobile devices originally wore a Symbian or Windows, inevitably had to adopt Android to be competitive and relevant in the market. If not use Android, not giving the market a good response.
Google's operating system was first present at smartphone with HTC G1 model or known by the name of HTC Dream with Android 1.0. OS that was full of bugs, so now one of the most popular OS in the world.
Cause Android so very popular, one of which is the software update fast enough especially for the flagship series, such as the Motorola Droid and the Samsung Galaxy s.
As Engadget, Monday quoted (24/9/2018), Android became popular since the end of 2010, while the upgrades done to the extent it still competitors-that's it.
If previous iPhone beat Symbian OS, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile lagged thus far of Android.
Therefore, many vendors of mobile devices originally wore a Symbian or Windows, inevitably had to adopt Android to be competitive and relevant in the market. If not use Android, not giving the market a good response.
2 billion in Android devices
Now, in the 10 years of its existence, there are already more than 2 billion active Android devices.
Most important, Android has evolved considerably not only as on smartphones in the past decade.
You can see the Android has been lodged elsewhere. Call it a tablet, smart TV, smart clock, not to mention refrigerators, ovens, and VR headset.
Already 10 years old, about what will happen on Android in the next 10 years? It will probably continue to grow, because Google still continues to focus on Android for adoption in a variety of devices.
Malware Seek Android
Apart from the 10 years of Android in the realm of technology, security firm Nightwatch Cybersecurity is reported to have discovered a new vulnerability of Android. This vulnerability makes the third parties can easily access the information from the system in the device.
As for the accessible information includes the name of the Wi-Fi network device digunaka, BSSID, MAC address of the device, the DNS server information, to the local IP address.
Armed with that information, malicious applications can figure out the location of the included track Android devices to ascertain the location of the course. Not only that, hackers can also exploit this vulnerability to attack the Wi-Fi networks that are not protected.
Although dangerous, in fact this vulnerability does not strike the whole Android version. Quoted from Phone Arena, this security gap turns out to be just a threatening outside of Android version 9.0 Pie.
The reason, Google has rolled the update to address this security gap in Android 9.0 Pie. Therefore, most of these newer operating systems are free from this vulnerability.
"With this security loophole, any application can find out the information on the device without going through the licensing process and security first, " said Nightwatch Security.
Not only threatens the Android version in addition to pies, devices that run Android modifications are also prone to break down. Therefore, devices such as the Amazon Fire Phone and Tablet can Fire affected this security loophole.
Despite threatening the majority of Android operating system that is on the current device, according to Nightwatch Security, Google has no plans to fix this security loophole in the older operating system.
Although Google is not protected, endangered users of devices that do not run AndroidPie have a way to avoid this security loophole, by always putting up the official application more secure.
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