Android it is the most used operating system for mobile terminals in the whole world, and this brings some big headaches for those at Google, but the company is always alert to what is happening. In 2019, the Google company paid no less than 1.9 million dollars to the IT security experts from whom it received warnings regarding the vulnerabilities that exist in the Android operating system used around the world.
Android it's an operating system that offers a lot of freedom for users and developers, but that means it also has some vulnerabilities that can be exploited against the people who use it every day. Well, just for such vulnerabilities, Google pays large sums of money, and in 2019 the amount of 1.9 million paid for computer security researchers is a record for Android, but this is just the beginning for everyone.
Android: The Google Announcement That Took A LOT OF The World BY SURPRISE
Android is just one of the products for which those from Google I pay money good to IT security experts whose interest is to discover operating system vulnerabilities. In total, those from Google paid 6.5 million dollars for the vulnerabilities discovered in their products, and Android represents almost a third of the amount, being the second product that generated the highest costs from this point of view in 2019.
Android it was included in this program in 2019, and not even from the first day, so the amount could be much higher than what Google paid in the end, but probably in 2020 things will be completely different. It is expected that in 2020 Google will pay even more for the vulnerabilities discovered in Android, and this is because no software is perfect, Apple, Microsoft, and many other companies paying for the same things.
Android it is improved every month by Google, and its security problems are solved just as quickly by the American company, so it is good that it pays so that we are completely safe.
