Google's chief security officer says Android is just as secure as iOS

iOS and Android

I will try to be objective when writing this post. One of the bullets we use when iOS users want to attack Android Its the safety. Google releases patches every month, but manufacturers take the time to make them available to their users, so when a threat is discovered, it can take months to protect users of an Android device. It seems that few of us could deny the above statements, unless our name is Adrian Ludwing ...

Yesterday, Google Security Director He spoke about the improvements that the search engine company has included in its mobile platform, some important improvements that would have put Android at the same level as iOS in terms of security, ensuring that «for most threat models (iOS and Android) they are practically identical in terms of platform-level capabilities«.

Adrian Ludwing: "Android is just as secure as iOS"

Ludwing responded to questions comparing the pixel With the iPhone and the question of whether the two are the same in terms of security, Google's security director answered a «insurance»And added that soon«They will be better«. The reason Ludwing thinks that Android will be more secure than iOS in the future is the openness of Google's mobile operating system, although he did not go into detail about what they will do to improve Android security.

At first, as an occasional user of Ubuntu, I can understand that an open source system is very secure because "good" hackers find bugs at the same time as "bad" hackers, report them and fix them in hours ... sometimes. As far as I know, ALL Android mobiles are vulnerable to what is known as "Dirty COW", a vulnerability that was discovered no less than 9 years ago, so I think that openness is not always synonymous with security.

Ludwing also spoke of Safety Net, a service that scans some 400 million devices and some 6.000 billion applications every day. But he also spoke of Stagefight, a serious security breach, to defuse the matter saying that «Right now, we do not know of any confirmed case of its exploitation«. That in my town is called throwing balls out ...

What strikes me a bit is that Google's chief security officer says that both platforms are "equal" and don't say they are "better" right now. In my opinion, if I really thought what it says, I would say that Android is more secure than iOS, but not that they are the same. In any case, that is what Ludwing says and I have tried to publish it being objective, although I doubt that I have succeeded.


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  1.   Manolo said

    Hahahahahahahahahahahaha horny, he is horny hahahahaha hahaha

  2.   Luis said

    It will refer to pure Android installed in the Pixel because in the rest of the manufacturers ... even so I doubt very much that it is more secure or just as secure ... since simply Google is a company that lives on the data of its users and that also does not have any I am reluctant to provide the NSA or the FBI itself with any data of its users without putting up any type of opposition! I very much doubt that security of which they speak !!!

  3.   hahaha said

    Well yes, they are the same if they are connected to the internet.

    Another thing is the malware installed, or being turned off that here the iphone is safer in both cases

  4.   Hugh said

    Hahaha

  5.   Hugh said

    J

  6.   Daniel perez said

    Not a joke. So clear.

  7.   Pepe said

    Hahaha, I also want what this guy smokes ... how horny !!!

  8.   Nostramo Esp said

    Any qualified mobile device security technician (and I'm not talking about someone who knows how to root their mobile at home) can safely say that Android is far, far from being as secure as iOS. In order not to get into unnecessary technicalities, an Android can be rooted remotely with a simple app (downloaded from an official Market that is abuzz with malware), something that on an iOS device is impossible unless it has a jailbreak done, and still this is quite complicated.
    Anyway ... Mr. Adrian Ludwing should be more cautious with his categorizations, or failing that he tells us where he buys what he smokes and so we all laugh 😉