Showing posts with label Gingerbread Android. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gingerbread Android. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Android 2.3 is the most targeted mobile OS

http://i.imgur.com/dXzBG.jpg

According to a study conducted by the Russian firm Kaspersky Lab IT security, version 2.3 Gingerbread Android operating system is the most attacked the market, with 28% of all attacks specifically targeting the 2.3.6 version. In addition, the Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4 is also among the most attacked, receiving 22% of the attacks. Kaspersky Lab says LOCKED have over 1300 million attacks in the last quarter of the year, and more than half were made using Java vulnerabilities.
Besides this, in the last quarter saw a 3% increase in the amount of malware URLs compared to the second quarter, reaching nearly 92 million in total.
Note that Gingerbread version of Android is the most used, being present in more than half of Android in the world, so we are not surprised that it is the episodes.