Report: Half of Android devices have unpatched holes

More than 50 percent of Android devices have serious vulnerabilities that are unpatched because carriers are often slow to update the software, a mobile security researcher says.
“Since we launched X-Ray [Android app used for scanning for vulnerabilities], we’ve already collected results from over 20,000 Android devices worldwide. Based on these initial results, we estimate that over half of Android devices worldwide have unpatched vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a malicious app or adversary,” Jon Oberheide, chief technology officer at Duo Security, wrote in a blog post. The…

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