Accumulated vulnerabilities or advantage of Apple on Android

Vulnerability is a flaw in the software. In other words, it is a mistake that could lead to unpredicted application behaviour and could be used for malicious content. It is useless without a reasonable way of exploiting it, or in other words, without an exploit.

Research is a continuous, never-ending process. With time vulnerabilities and further exploits are discovered in operating systems and applications. Developers tend to close them all until an exploit is developed, but if you do not receive updates from a developer, you start accumulating vulnerabilities.

A device with accumulated vulnerabilities is at risk, because it may contain old well-known ones with commoditised exploits available on the dark market. That significantly lowers the barrier of getting on your device.

iOs updates delivery pace is incomparably better than on Android. Apple and Google eliminate vulnerabilities equally good, but Apple, not Google delivers them to your device.

• 50% of active iOs devices are on the latest operating system (iOs 13). 41% are on the previous system (iOs 12).

• 10% fo active Android devices are on the latest operating system (Pie 9), 26% on the previous one (Oreo 8), 19% more on an even older one (Nougat 7).

The data is based on the www.statista.com.

Keep in mind a principle of accumulated vulnerabilities when you think about the security of your devices.