Information is Wealth.

Nokia's 2017 Threat Intelligence Report offers a reminder why it's a good idea to limit app installs to the Google Play Store, even  if it's not perfect . Nokia found that 68 percent of all devices that were infected in the past year were running Android, followed by 28 percent running Windows, and around three percent running iOS. The figures are based on data collected from Nokia's NetGuard, a security product deployed at mobile network operators and used to monitor network traffic from over 100 million devices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific, but not India and China. Nokia also found the proportion of Android devices that were infected per month was on average 0.94 percent this year. That's slightly higher than Google's estimate in its  2016 Android security review  that 0.71 percent of Android devices had "potentially harmfully applications" installed in Q4 2016. Infections fell to 0.05 percent on devices that on...