Android or iOS: What mobile operating system is more secure? – Strategy & Business

By: BBC World

Google and Apple, both owners have seen cybercriminals are loopholes in their systems

A late. September, the company that makes iPhones had to recognize that a group of Chinese hackers perpetrated the attack on IOS largest in its history, with viruses infecting at least 60 applications from its App Store.

And a months before, came out the biggest security breach detected in Android, which affected 95% of its users. It was a vulnerability, discovered by security firm Zimperium, which would have allowed a hacker enter the phone without the user doing anything or any app can be downloaded.

The answer is not outright . Both have advantages and disadvantages, as shown in a recent comparative report by the security company and antivirus Panda Security.

To find out which is the safest for you will depend on the type you use it to your phone.

Pros and cons of iOS

The iOS system has the advantage that it is a more secure closed system in principle, since “Apple has a special control over the work of the application developers, “explains Panda experts.

Usually, iOS apps are safer, though its App Store has just suffered the biggest attack of its history.

The App Store has different mechanisms to verify the apps tools and origin. Although this, as we have seen, does not make you invulnerable.

It also has the advantage that the data stored in notes, reminders, contacts and calendar “feature an extra layer of encryption.”

However, the report “a scraping approved” to privacy issues.

There it warns that in many cases have revealed the existence of vulnerabilities, “back doors” in their devices and attacks on ID accounts.

Advantages and disadvantages of Android

Android has always been in the spotlight of cybercriminals because it has many more users than iOS, and therefore are more likely to succeed in their attacks.

However, Panda Security ensures that Android developers use the programming language C ++ “more complex than those that emerged later and, therefore, more difficult to change by the criminals.”

Android developers have managed to make it safe to make payments with their mobile phones.

The main problem is in the Play Store, the app store. The level of demand to avoid tools of unknown origin is less and the operating system does not give the slightest sign of uncertainty.

The code their apps, in Java, it is easily modifiable by criminals, according to the report.

But if to purchase applications is less secure than its rival, the operating system displays great strength when it comes to make secure payments through the cell, they say.

Works through an app offered by banks and is downloaded to the phone.

When you make a payment, the tool sends user information “through secure standards” NFC chips installed on the device .

It seems, therefore, that it is impossible to be 100% sure when you use the phone and internet.

In this regard, the report argues that despite the strengths and weaknesses systems, it is very important that you use strong passwords, you change them often and use caution with the downloads.