Sunday, 3 July 2016

NEW-FOUND ANDROID VULNERABILITY WEAKENS ENCRYPTION IN 57% HANDSETS



Qualcomm's product security hall of fame 's a leading security expert gal beniamini, after a research he reportedly suggested customers to buy only NEXUS OR SAMSUNG devices only . This is because of nearly 57% of smartphones in the Android ecosystem have not yet received the monthly security patch released in may , which fixes a security vulnerability affecting the devices and users privacy .
This vulnerability affects the full disk encryption in device and it is found by leading security expert gal beniamini .
During the testing of a wide range of smartphones by duo labs , only NEXUS and SAMSUNG Galaxy devices demonstrated substantially enhanced security measures when compared to other competing device. So that the researchers like beniamini are unable to recommended other than NEXUS and SAMSUNG devices from a security perspective.

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