Hackers have at least 193 ways to take control of your Android phone

Google is all set to release the tenth version of android which will be called Android 10 and Q, however, what is important to note that there ares still 193 security vulnerabilities in Android that google is yet to fix and with the release of Android 10, Google is hopeful that will completely patch all these vulnerabilities in one release. "Android Q devices with a security patch level of 01/09/2019
(Android Q, as released on AOSP, has a default security patch level of 01/09/2019)" said google in its Android security bulletin.



The security vulnerabilities include remote code execution, denial of service along with issue with Android run time. All these issues can be advantages for hackers as Google has rated them as "moderate" in the scale of severity.

Despite having so many of these vulnerabilities, Google has confirmed that they have not got any reports from any abuse vulnerabilities yet.

This means it is all the more important for users to get to the latest Android 10 version. "Exploitation for many issues on Android is made more difficult by enhancements in newer versions of the Android platform," added Google.

While it would take considerable amount of time for all users to migrate to Android 10, Google has made some changes to its app store. Google has now made it mandatory that all new Android apps would need at least three days for approval. This means you simply cannot publish your Android apps instantly on Google Play. Also, the developers will not be given any specific date or time frame as to when the "approval process" would get over. The reason for this minimum three days approval process is "to help better protect users."

This app approval process is separate and is not related to the "closed alpha review" which Google does. After going through the "closed alpha review", the app would be stuck for at least another three days for the final nod from Google. As Android apps are one of the main sources of malware infection, the new policy makes it difficult for mischievous Android apps to make there way into Google Play.