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Some 79% of malicious attacks on mobiles in 2012 occurred on devices running Google's Android operating system, US authorities have said.
Nokia's Symbian system, on the Finnish company's basic-feature handsets, had had the second-most malware attacks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23863495[^]
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This is rather useless statistics : if there are 100 times more Android phones in the world than iPhones, then the iPhone are less secure than Android phones.
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And given that the article counts "trojan text messages" as "android attacks"...
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OriginalGriff wrote: And given that the article counts "trojan text messages" as "android attacks"...
That bit seems rather off to me too. Are text spammers just not targeting iOS users, is there some reason they're not being reported on iOS, or does Apple have a much better spam filter than Google does allowing them to almost entirely block them?
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I suspect it's because there are 7 Android phones for each 2 iOS (or iOS users don't notice it as an attack, skewing the figures even more) http://techland.time.com/2013/04/16/ios-vs-android/[^]
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By global marketshare iOS should've been ~20/40% (global/US) of the total; with half the reports being hostile texts that should've naively been 10/20% of the total which is why I'm wondering about non-reporting for some reason or if Apple's just winning the text spam filtering war.
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--Zachris Topelius
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Or Apple users assume their device is totally secure (because Apple says it is) and don't report it.
Or "selective reporting" by the statistics compilers.
Or... loads of other possibles. It might even be genuine - but I don't think you can tell is a number you are texting is Android / iOS / Windows without some kind of reply. It's more likely that phone sellers use "blocks" of mobile numbers so the next 100,000 will all be Android, say. If the spammers are just shotgun targeting pseudorandom numbers that would distort the figures as well.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Or Apple users assume their device is totally secure (because Apple says it is) and don't report it.
Or "selective reporting" by the statistics compilers.
what part of "...non-reporting for some reason ..." don't those fall under. 
OriginalGriff wrote: It's more likely that phone sellers use "blocks" of mobile numbers so the next 100,000 will all be Android, say. If the spammers are just shotgun targeting pseudorandom numbers that would distort the figures as well.
 I've never heard any claim of phone numbers being assigned by device type before; and except for numbers being handed out to kids now, most cell numbers predate android and iOS. If they were assigned by device type for some reason it'd've been Palm, blackberry, flipphone, etc; groups that I'd expect to have negligible correlation with modern OS preferences.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: I've never heard any claim of phone numbers being assigned by device type before
What about by vendor and then by business division?
I can't speak to the market now but I know specifically, by first hand knowledge, that at one time vendors did request numbers by block.
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: I think they also said it was Android 2.3
Isn't that like saying that most of the malicious software found on the PC is running on Windows 2000XP?
Not quite. PS FTFY.
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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2k is basically gone from the market; so however bad it was it doesn't really count anymore. If you wanted to assign it to an Android version I'd go with 2.0 or maybe 1.6 (1.x is win9x). XP and 2.3 are both pathetically old versions that have appallingly high residual marketshare so I think the match fits better than to 2k.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: Some 79% of malicious attacks
I haven't read the article, but from the quote... it doesn't say anything about successful attacks. So, there isn't anything really useful discovered here.
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Isn't this number based upon an evaluation of the app store? 
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And 50% of those attacks are phishing attacks that have nothing to with Android. 
/ravi
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Spot on. It's just a volume thing.
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That's not terribly surprising, since Android accounts for about 79% of phones[^]. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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"There is no such thing as coincidence"
There must be. Apple says so.
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So most attackers target Windows computers and android phones?
I wonder what possible reason there could be for that. There must be a logical reason, no?
BTW, "attack" does not mean "victory". Precious few devices are unprotected.
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During one of searches for more recent news on Google Glass I came upon this article;
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57600144-71/its-war-siri-mocks-google-glass/[^]
Basically it explains how Siri now smack talks Google Glass / Abuses its user if you say "OK Glass" into Siri. We tried this in the office during lunch and laughed our arses off. Entertaining and usually I'm on the side of Android, but I found this funny so +1 to the fruity firm(Apple).
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www.simonshugar.co.uk
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Latest news:
The most-used siri commands:
- "OK Glass" (94.1%).
- "Boobies" (4.1%)
- "This is really cool, you can talk to it" (1.1%)
- "Oh, I pressed the button by accident" (0.59%)
- (no message) (0.2%)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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STAR 3 Robot[^]
This neat little robot was built using 3-D printing, and is capable of sliding under doors, righting itself after a fall, and quite a few other nifty tricks.
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Very cute - if slightly creepy...
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Only slightly? I find it intensely creepy, as I envision all the ways it could be used to invade one's privacy. NSA will probably classify it, then buy up the rights for a song and throw the inventors in a deep pit.
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