Thursday 28 November 2013

The Operating System of Android is being used by hundreds of millions of users around the globe. But, the Google has not engineered one of the most sophisticated OS regarding data security as it contributes huge in data leakage. According to the latest report obtained by the Public Intelligence, the U.S Department of Homeland and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are fully aware of the threats imposed by the lack of security barriers in the program. More than 40 percent of the Android users around the world are using older versions between Android 2.3.3 to 2.3.7 i.e. Gingerbread. In those versions, many of the security bugs were not fixed that have been fixed in the latter versions.
There is nothing mentioned in the report about how much of the government officials of the US use an outdated version of the Android. But, there must a number of government officials who would have been using older versions of the Android OS; this thought is quite a horrifying one. As you know, a small incident of data breach by an employee can make the whole organization suffer, so is the case of government information would be different? Well, there is a big question mark on this statement. To tackle the problem of data breach is to dump the old devices for the newer ones.
Other than that, use of data security app such as Folder Lock for Android that can password protect your photos, videos, audio files, sensitive documents, secret notes, private contacts and other important data that needs some reasonable security. The Android OS is rated as one of the biggest threats imposed to data security by the experts. There is a need to make your information secure, otherwise, even a small case of data breach can haunt you for ages and it is hard to recover from that trauma.
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