Apple’s iPhones have a reputation for being far more secure than their Android counterparts, and a researcher has just shown what a stark difference there is between the two. However, while iOS scored an apparent victory, it didn’t come up smelling entirely of roses.
Ernestas Naprys, a journalist at Cybernews, an online publication that identifies and reports on cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities, conducted an experiment by installing the top 100 apps in the German App Store on a fresh iPhone and a fresh Android phone. He then left the devices idle, and noted how often they contacted foreign servers, as well as where those servers were located.
