I'm finding that even in 2015, a lot of people are just leaving so much up to faith.
Just recently, very recently, millions, billions and trillions of Android users got hit hard by some malicious apps from Google's Play store.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2879952/scareware-found-hidden-in-google-play-apps-downloaded-by-millions.html#tk.fb_pc
Since, there's no real way to moderate a store such as that from open-source development, it's no surprise people will end up with something really bad.
You can look at reviews and look at how many people download the app, but you can't know %100 that it's a safe and clean application for your Android.
Android security is a little more trickier.
There's a lot of name brands out there, much like we see here for Windows.
But, all mobile security apps can only do so much.
But, I'm so new to mobile devices, maybe these small-time security apps are all that's needed to stop just a portion of something happening.
Granted, you don't change the settings and make an exception for the devil at your door.
But, I'm still amazed that not just on the Android, but a lot of Windows users are still falling victim to things.
Even simple things such as a video scam about recent tragedies that are just viruses waiting for you to click play.
Security awareness isn't all that popular today.
Most tech news sites/blogs/social pages/etc only do a short article on security software and the vulnerabilities they help protect against.
Go to the official sites, you'll see a lot of promoting and sales tactics.
A lot of links to reviews from the same tech news groups.
Some personal annectdotes ("10/10 saved my life").
I don't know why, but whenever something happens like a virus masked as a streamable video on social sites (facebook), is only news in the simplest words.
Marketing awareness can increase people's interest if they use past examples of scams and incidents.
Just like the first article I posted about Anti-Exploit blocking a malicious Adobe Flash 0-Day security breach.
That's the most in-depth awareness I've seen from any security company.
It's reaching out to its audience and potential-clients on so many levels.
You don't need a degree in computer programming or engineering to figure out just how well it worked on a lot of common exploits out there in today's day and age.
Especially against something so huge as Adobe.
As great as Adobe can be in media development and production, it's by far the most exploitable product/service out there.
Next to Java.
Adobe Flash and Adobe Acrobat (by proxy of opening PDF files) are always on the front-lines for security vulnerabilities.
You can see this if you follow up through a lot of clicking and searching to get to development pages that report which vulnerabilities are still not patched and what has been patched in the past.
Most of the time, the generic end-user (most of us) just updates Adobe Flash and not really know what's being updated or how important it is.
Of course, it's always important.
But it's not nearly illustrated enough to make users want to update every time there's an update.
My brother doesn't like dealing with updates. No one does, really. I don't.
You update once a month, sometimes 2-3 times if there's a hole in the update that requires a patch. *cough*ADOBE*cough*
Finding the updates that are critical are not easy to find and are not easy to interpret.
I find Adobe to be the laziest for juicy details on udpates. It doesn't really make it sound all that important to update the second there's an update.
Them generically saying "update because it's important" doesn't feel so important.
Usually, I find people only take these security updates seriously only after something major happens where the news sweeps across tech news centers.
It's like no one really cares. Or cares to learn.
Hmmm....I should start a new thread inquiring about mobile security...
i've only got Malwarebytes' security program.
