You know, it’s really how you frame something to make it sound almost appealing. Lots of grocery stores sell beef and it’s labeled as lean, but you know it has a lot of fat content if you were to flip the percentages around.
Google said back in September that there were 1.4 billion active Android devices worldwide at the time. Google also said that 70.8% of all active Android devices are running modern versions of Android that it supports with patches.
That means there are 29.2%… or 409 million unpatchable Android devices.
Not included in this massive number, rooted phones.
Here’s some good news though, even the most high-profile vulnerabilities don’t seem to have been exploited by hackers. Despite the widespread concern around the Stagefright vulnerabilities, which affected nearly 1 billion phones, no successful exploits were ever reported (which doesn’t mean anything evil didn’t actually happen).
Read more on Forbes and on Sophos.
Does this effect your Mobile Device Management strategy?
