Google Photos will now free up your storage space

Storage has become a major issue nowadays as people want more and more storage space to store their data. When it comes the matter of personal details such as snaps and videos, 32GB or 64GB of space is just not enough for people to record their day to day activities. Just then Google launched it application Photos, an application that would store pictures and videos on cloud and access anywhere.Now, an update to the application would free up the storage space in your android device on just one click.

On Tuesday, Google announced in its Google+ page that a new 'Free Up Space' button has been added to the Settings menu of the Google Photos application on android. When you click on this button, you will be prompted to delete all the copies of photos and videos that have been backed up by the application. The update also gives SD-card enables devices the ability to delete photos and videos from SD card.

In addition to this, Google is rolling out a website feature which will allow users to downgrade the photos uploaded in "Original Quality" to "High Quality" from their browsers. This feature is already present in the the Photos application for android devices

This is a welcoming move by Google as it would save a lot of storage space of the device.

iOS apps more vulnerable than android apps

Application written for iOS are more vulnerable than those written for android. As attackers are moving to application based threats, this vulnerability (has the potential for security problems in the future) can be the budding for the future attacks.

According to report from mobile application security vendors Checkmarx and AppSec Labs, the average mobile app has nine vulnerabilities of which 40% were critical and highly severe compared to 36% from android.

The researchers carried out tests on hundreds of applications of all type (that included banking, utilities, gaming and security). Major banking applications had vulnerabilities such as faulty authentication and data leakage. The most common vulnerability was the leakage of personal and other sensitive details. The authentication and authorization vulnerabilities were found to account for 23% of the total which takes the second place in the list. Other vulnerabilities included disclosure of technical information such as application logs and input validation handling.

Although there is assumption that iOS devices are more secure than android, it proved to be wrong from this report. What actually happens in iOS is that iOS has more restrictive controls over what developers can do and strict application sandboxing. If any vulnerability is found, the application would be immediately removed from the Apple App Store. 

New Android update to fix critical vulnerabilities

Recent vulnerabilities allowed an hacker to enter your device through an email, MMS or either using web browsing. Android now has released an update that would fix this vulnerabilities. A total of 23 vulnerabilities including two critical issues would be fixed in this update. The update would also fix a vulnerability discovered in the Stagefright library.

The patch covers the bugs reported by Trend Micro, System Security Lab and the internal security team. Although, the big question would be on how long would it take to patch all the vulnerabilities for every device.