Google has no way to push updates to devices running Android software, making the devices vulnerable to malware.
A security researcher has discovered a way to take over roughly 70 percent of Android devices via a Web page or app. It’s not known if anyone’s actually using the exploit to attack people’s phones, but the researcher’s findings are nonetheless a reminder that Google faces a growing headache because it lacks any way to effectively distribute security updates to the hundreds of millions of devices running its software worldwide. Many of those devices have outdated versions of Android.
