Feb 25, 2012
Because Android is So Much More Secure than iOS
By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 7:04 AM
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes writes:
The report makes depressing reading. Across all platforms, mobile malware attacks are up 155 percent, with mobile malware samples increasing from 11,138 in 2010 to 28,472 in 2011. BlackBerry malware grew by 8 percent, and Java ME saw a 49 percent increase. But the platform hit hardest was Android, with malware increasing by an incredible 3,325 percent in a year. During the last six months of 2011, Android malware samples had increased from 400 to 13,302.
Conspicuously absent from the list of devices affected by malware attacks is the iPhone. You don't suppose that is because there is no malware for the iPhone, do you?
HT: Gruber
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Re: Because Android is So Much More Secure than iOS
Hmm… I could have sworn I left a comment last night. Either didn’t press the final OK, or you moderated it. I don’t think I was too inflammatory…
The absence doesn’t surprise me at all. Isn’t this the purported purpose of the app store screening process? I don’t know enough to know if it’s /impossible/ to install malware on an iDevice, but it would have to be difficult on a non-cracked phone.
Re: Because Android is So Much More Secure than iOS
Hopefully you didn’t hit the final OK — otherwise SAFARI now has a mind of its own and moderated itself.
As to the App Store… indeed. I was feeling snarky.