With Android, each mobile phone company has its own build of the Android operating system so that it can include its own user interface, graphics, and branding. Although Google released an updated version of Android that fixed the vulnerability soon after it was discovered, at least 42 percent of phones run an older version that is still vulnerable, according to data available on the Android developer site.
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