INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Your favorite phone maker may be delivering security updates at a steady pace, but a new report states that your smartphone may still be
smartphone market, according to in-depth findings from Security Research Labs (SRL).Across a relatively large sample size, companies like
Google, Samsung and Sony seem to be strong enforcers of including each patch within its security updates
On the other hand, ZTE, Huawei, LG, HTC, Motorola and other big names appear to omit, at times, several patches from its releases
SRL doesn't specify phone models, but states that its testing was limited to phones that were patched during and following October 2017
It could come down to a lack of resources, the sheer difficulty of adapting the work across multiple devices, or the hope that the next
But even so, Android has other stop-gap measures to keep users safe, including application sandboxing (this limits an application from
running within a larger code environment) and the relatively new Google Play Protect feature that debuted in 2017.What does this mean for
that the app SnoopSnitch will allow you determine if your updates cover the wide swath of patches necessary to stay as safe as possible
