Google’s Android has solved many of the security weaknesses that beset Windows but at the expense of handing a dangerous level of decision-making to users, a Symantec study has argued.A Window into Mobile Device Security compares Android’s security architecture to that of its major rival, Apple’s iOS, which runs the iPhone and iPad, and finds the latter to be superior, at least for now.To read this TechWorld report in full, see:
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Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android smartphone platforms are more secure than traditional desktop-based operating systems, but are still susceptible to many existing categories of attacks, according toa 23-page report from security software vendor Symantec.The good news is that Apple and Google designed their respective operating systems with security in mind. But keeping up with a constantly changing threat landscape is difficult. In the report, “A window into mobile device security,” Symantec evaluated the two operating systems for how they stood up to Web-based and network-based attacks, social engineering attacks, attacks on the integrity of the device’s data, and malware.
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