Last month, it was found that an inactive piece of software program that ships on all Google Pixel smartphones offered a possible safety vulnerability for system homeowners. The firm shortly stated it could take away “Showcase.apk,” which was created years in the past “for Verizon in-store demo gadgets and is not getting used.” But on the off probability it had been ever exploited, cybersecurity agency iVerify discovered that the software program may make telephones “accessible to hackers and ripe for man-in-the-middle assaults, code injection, and spy ware.” The flare-up was sufficient for Palantir to implement a companywide ban on Android gadgets.
At the time, Google informed us that it had “seen no proof of any energetic exploitation,” and with as we speak’s launch of the month-to-month Pixel software program replace, it’s eliminating Showcase.apk altogether. The launch notes affirm that the September patch features a repair to “take away third-party APK to handle safety vulnerability.”
Other than that, it’s a really small replace, with enhancements to Wi-Fi stability and efficiency for Google’s brand-new Pixel 9 portfolio as the one different bullet level. Bigger software program upgrades await subsequent month; that’s when Google plans to roll out Android 15 to its gadgets. The main OS replace was launched to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) as we speak, but it surely’ll be a couple of extra weeks till it’s prepared for Pixel {hardware}.
