Security is the most important factor in our digital life, as we save lots of information on our device and Google realize it. And because of that the company always comes up with new technologies, to tighten up security of your personal stuffs. Recently, Google introduced Play Protect to keep your device safe from malware. And now with Android Oreo, Google introduced a new feature for your security.
The new security feature in Android Oreo is in the area of unknown sources option, which allows users to install application downloaded from outside Google Play Store or sharing any apk from any others device via different file sharing apps. And this leads to a huge security loopholes, to make things safer Google making new changes in the latest version of Android.
Right now we just need to do a single switch to install application downloaded from outside Google Play Store, and now the new option comes in the new form of an individual install Unknown Apps permission that need to be approved each time you install an app downloaded from outside the Play Store.
“When used on a device running Android O and higher, hostile downloaders cannot trick the user into installing an app without having first been given the go-ahead,” states Android Security Product Manager Edward Cunningham on the Android Developers blog.
So, with the new efforts of the Mountain View company we can say that users who use the latest version of Android will be safe and the device will not be infected through malicious apps.
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Source: Android Developers
