Thursday, January 15, 2015

Google endangers 900 million Android smartphones, by refusing to patch WebView

Do you have an Android smartphone or tablet?

Because if you are running Android 4.3 (aka Jellybean) or earlier I’m afraid there’s some bad news: you’re not going to be receiving any security updates from Google for WebView, a core component of the Android operating system used to render webpages.

What's worse, is you may have just bought a new Android Phone this week and its already outdated and may not get updates! Yes, phones are still being sold today with this older OS that Google will no longer update.

Read more here:  http://www.hotforsecurity.com/