Some Android Phone Manufacturers Lying to Users About Security Updates

Posted on Apr 13, 2018

Some Android Phone Manufacturers Lying to Users About Security Updates

SRL researchers Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell spent two years analyzing Android devices, checking to see if the phones actually had installed the security patches that the software said it had. The pair found that many devices had what they call a “patch gap,” where the phone’s software would claim it was up to date with security patches but was, in reality, missing up to a dozen of the patches.

Source: theverge.com