Android has always been the victim of vulnerability attacks.
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Ever since it was discovered, Google and OEMs have been working on patches to solve this issue and it was this week when the phones started to get the updates.
Starting today, Nexus 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and Nexus Player models are the select devices that will reportedly receive the Google security updates intended to protect them from vulnerabilities and issues.
One issue often cited with Android is its security, and while that flaw may not be totally based in reality, it’s still a perception that a lot of consumers have.
There’s no word from other Android manufacturers, but with Google and Samsung leading the charge, expect to hear from more mobile makers in the next few weeks regarding their security processes.
The Stagefright bug is said to affect more than 95 per cent of all Android smartphones and can be passed from device to device by video and picture messages.
Dong Jin Koh, executive vice president and head of mobile research and development at Samsung, said that the firm is “rethinking the approach to getting security updates” to devices.
Samsung has also pledged to keep its devices more up to date with security fixes. Individual carriers are responsible for sending out their own Android patches, and security researchers have been critical of the carriers in the past for being slow to do so-or for not patching at all.
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After Google, Samsung, and LG recently committed to a monthly software update release to patch known security exploits (you can thank Stagefright for that), we assumed other Android OEMs would soon follow suit. The aforementioned devices are also all eligible for Google’s monthly security updates going forward, which the company says will be issued in addition to regular platform updates, and will typically include bug fixes as well.
