Some Android smartphone industrialists are lying to users about missed security updates

collected by :Maya Tony

Research company safety study Labs is claiming which numerous Android industrialists are lying to users about missed safety patches, according to a report from Wired. The missed patches aren't just an isolated incident, either. Even flagships from Samsung and Sony occasionally missed safety patchesObviously, this is bad. To be clear, not all smartphone industrialists are equal when it comes to missing safety patches. Correction: Flagship phones from Samsung and Sony occasionally missed patches, not Samsung and Google as this article originally stated.

Demand perfect vibrations from your following Android phone

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Fake messaging applications can compromise your Android phone

according to A search in the play store yielded numerous versions of the messaging application Telegram, not all of them legitimate. Danger lurks between such common mobile applications as WhatsApp, Telegram and MX Player in the Google Play Store. The menace of Android ransomware has been growing at an alarming rate. In Singapore,  revelation of Android ransomware has promoted with 500 per cent from 2017. He said: "Fake mobile applications imitate the look or functionality of legitimate apps, such as banking or common game apps, to trick users into installing them."

Android Auto Eventually supports wireless, as long as you've got the right phone

Up until this time you've had to plug your Android smartphone into the head unit with a cable in order to enjoy everything which Android Auto has to offer – quite a main restriction in this age of wireless connectivity. If you've got a Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel two XL, Nexus 5X or Nexus 6P phone, everything should happen wireless and automatically once you power up your car, as per a message from Google. It going to not work with eextremely Android Auto motorcar unit – and Google tells the feature has only been enabled in North US very far. Even with those caveats, and limited device support, it's encouraging to see Android Auto Eventually go wireless. If you do not have a compatible head unit in your car, you could run Android Auto on your smartphone as an app.

Android smartphone makers skip Google security updates without telling users – study

investigators from Germany's safety study Labs (SRL) conducted a two-year study into the state of Android safety focused around the every 30 days updates which Google issues and urges smartphone industrialists to install. These every 30 days updates are crucial for saving smartphones secure, fixing collections of known bugs and holes each 30 days to save hackers at bay. Google dates the every 30 days safety updates very which users could see if their smartphones have been updated with the laanalisis fixes. Google's Android output safety lead, Scott Roberts, said: "We're working with [SRL] to get best their  revelation mechanisms to account for situations where a device Utilizes an alternate safety upgrade instead of the Google-proposed safety update. "Security updates are 1 of many layers used to prevent Android devices and users.