“iOS, the mobile operating system that powers Apple’s popular iPhone and iPad devices, offers more protection than its Android counterpart, the security experts at Symantec have concluded in a newly published report,” Blake Steven reports for AppleInsider
“Symantec this week published ‘A Window Into Mobile Device Security,’ a 23-page document that details the security approaches employed by Apple and Google in their respective mobile operating systems,” Steven reports. “It also offers a closer look at past and possible future security holes found in the iOS and Android platforms.”
Steven reports, “In a head-to-head comparison, Symantec found that Apple’s iOS is more secure than Google’s Android. Specifically, iOS was characterized as having ‘full protection’ against malware attacks, while Android was deemed to have ‘little protection.'”
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