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These are the companies that have the most secure phones in the world

Android is one of the operating systems most affected by internet attacks due to its huge market share. For this reason, Google is constantly working on popular security patches, which are provided to manufacturers every month, and they fix the major security issues discovered by Google's security team, or, that other cyber security companies have reported.







However, the fact that Google launches these patches monthly does not mean that manufacturers release them to their phones as they should, as some take too long to update their devices with security patches, some even take more or less than 3 months to launch a security update.
For this reason, the German company specializing in cyber security SRLabs conducted a study to find out how often manufacturers update some of their phones with the latest security patches, and this study resulted in good and bad news.
The good thing that was discovered in this study is that more and more Android manufacturers pay more attention to security updates, although it is the high-end and mid-range devices that are frequently updated.
The study indicates that Google, Nokia and Sony are the manufacturers that update security patches faster, in fact, they launch these patches practically on the same day they were announced.




Another striking detail is that in fourth, fifth and sixth place are for Huawei, LG and Samsung, which takes an average of 6, 12 and 14 days to launch security patches after they are announced.
On the other hand, the slowest manufacturers that release security updates for their phones are Xiaomi, HTC and Vivo, although the study also shows that both Vivo and Xiaomi improved the number of patches released between 2018 and 2019.
SRLabs also mentioned that manufacturers like Samsung are updating computers with the most popular versions of Android faster, while companies like Motorola tend to release security patches faster in the latest OS versions.
 The bad thing is that the study confirms that the older the phones, the longer it takes to update their security patches.

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