Posted Kaleigh Rosenblat, Chrome Enterprise Senior Staff Software Engineer, Security Lead Generative AI has emerged as a powerful and popular tool to automate content creation and simple tasks. From customized content creation to source code generation, it can increase both our … | Continue reading
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy Keeping people safe and their data secure and private is a top priority for Android. That is why we took our time when designing the new Find My Device, which uses a crowdsourced device-locating network … | Continue reading
Alex Rebert, Software Engineer, Christoph Kern, Principal Engineer, Security FoundationsGoogle’s Project Zero reports that memory safety vulnerabilities—security defects caused by subtle coding errors related to how a program accesses memory—have been "the standard for attacking … | Continue reading
Posted by Lars Bergstrom – Director, Android Platform Tools & Libraries and Chair of the Rust Foundation Board Back in 2021, we announced that Google was joining the Rust Foundation. At the time, Rust was already in wide use across Android and other Google products. Our announce … | Continue reading
Royal Hansen, Vice President of Privacy, Safety and Security EngineeringThis week, the United Nations convened member states to continue its years-long negotiations on the UN Cybercrime Treaty, titled “Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal … | Continue reading
Dongge Liu and Oliver Chang, Google Open Source Security Team, Jan Nowakowski and Jan Keller, Machine Learning for Security TeamThe AI world moves fast, so we’ve been hard at work keeping security apace with recent advancements. One of our approaches, in alignment with Google’s S … | Continue reading
Posted by Sherif Hanna, Group Product Manager, Pixel Security Helping Pixel owners upgrade to the easier, safer way to sign in Your phone contains a lot of your personal information, from financial data to photos. Pixel phones are designed to help protect you and your data, and … | Continue reading
Posted by Keishi Hattori, Sergei Glazunov, Bartek Nowierski on behalf of the MiraclePtr team Welcome back to our latest update on MiraclePtr, our project to protect against use-after-free vulnerabilities in Google Chrome. If you need a refresher, you can read our previous blog po … | Continue reading
Posted by Keishi Hattori, Sergei Glazunov, Bartek Nowierski on behalf of the MiraclePtr team Welcome back to our latest update on MiraclePtr, our project to protect against use-after-free vulnerabilities in Google Chrome. If you need a refresher, you can read our previous blog po … | Continue reading
Posted by Ivan Lozano and Roger Piqueras Jover Android’s defense-in-depth strategy applies not only to the Android OS running on the Application Processor (AP) but also the firmware that runs on devices. We particularly prioritize hardening the cellular baseband given its unique … | Continue reading
Posted by Ivan Lozano and Roger Piqueras Jover Android’s defense-in-depth strategy applies not only to the Android OS running on the Application Processor (AP) but also the firmware that runs on devices. We particularly prioritize hardening the cellular baseband given its unique … | Continue reading
Elie Bursztein, Cybersecurity & AI Research Director, and Marina Zhang, Software EngineerSystems such as Gmail, YouTube and Google Play rely on text classification models to identify harmful content including phishing attacks, inappropriate comments, and scams. These types of tex … | Continue reading
Elie Bursztein, Cybersecurity & AI Research Director, and Marina Zhang, Software Engineer Systems such as Gmail, YouTube and Google Play rely on text classification models to identify harmful content including phishing attacks, inappropriate comments, and scams. These types of te … | Continue reading
Royal Hansen, Vice President of Privacy, Safety and Security Engineering, GoogleNearly half of third-parties fail to meet two or more of the Minimum Viable Secure Product controls. Why is this a problem? Because "98% of organizations have a relationship with at least one third-pa … | Continue reading
Royal Hansen, Vice President of Privacy, Safety and Security Engineering, Google Nearly half of third-parties fail to meet two or more of the Minimum Viable Secure Product controls. Why is this a problem? Because "98% of organizations have a relationship with at least one third-p … | Continue reading
Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky, Android Security and Privacy Team The App Defense Alliance (ADA), an industry-leading collaboration launched by Google in 2019 dedicated to ensuring the safety of the app ecosystem, is taking a major step forward. We are proud to announce that the A … | Continue reading
Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky, Android Security and Privacy Team The App Defense Alliance (ADA), an industry-leading collaboration launched by Google in 2019 dedicated to ensuring the safety of the app ecosystem, is taking a major step forward. We are proud to announce that the Ap … | Continue reading
Posted by Andy Qin, Irene Ang, Kostya Serebryany, Evgenii Stepanov Since 2018, Google has partnered with ARM and collaborated with many ecosystem partners (SoCs vendors, mobile phone OEMs, etc.) to develop Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) technology. We are now happy to share the … | Continue reading
Posted by Andy Qin, Irene Ang, Kostya Serebryany, Evgenii Stepanov Since 2018, Google has partnered with ARM and collaborated with many ecosystem partners (SoCs vendors, mobile phone OEMs, etc.) to develop Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) technology. We are now happy to share the g … | Continue reading
Posted by Chrome Security team Improving the interoperability of web services is an important and worthy goal. We believe that it should be easier for people to maintain and control their digital identities. And we appreciate that policymakers working on European Union digital c … | Continue reading
Posted by Chrome Security team Improving the interoperability of web services is an important and worthy goal. We believe that it should be easier for people to maintain and control their digital identities. And we appreciate that policymakers working on European Union digital ce … | Continue reading
Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky, Android Security and Privacy Team Keeping Google Play safe for users and developers remains a top priority for Google. As users increasingly prioritize their digital privacy and security, we continue to invest in our Data Safety section and transpar … | Continue reading
Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky, Android Security and Privacy Team Keeping Google Play safe for users and developers remains a top priority for Google. As users increasingly prioritize their digital privacy and security, we continue to invest in our Data Safety section and transpare … | Continue reading
Mihai Maruseac, Sarah Meiklejohn, Mark Lodato, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST)New AI innovations and applications are reaching consumers and businesses on an almost-daily basis. Building AI securely is a paramount concern, and we believe that Google’s Secure AI Framework … | Continue reading
Mihai Maruseac, Sarah Meiklejohn, Mark Lodato, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST) New AI innovations and applications are reaching consumers and businesses on an almost-daily basis. Building AI securely is a paramount concern, and we believe that Google’s Secure AI Framewor … | Continue reading
Eduardo Vela, Jan Keller and Ryan Rinaldi, Google Engineering In September, we shared how we are implementing the voluntary AI commitments that we and others in industry made at the White House in July. One of the most important developments involves expanding our existing Bug Hu … | Continue reading
Eduardo Vela, Jan Keller and Ryan Rinaldi, Google Engineering In September, we shared how we are implementing the voluntary AI commitments that we and others in industry made at the White House in July. One of the most important developments involves expanding our existing Bug Hu … | Continue reading
David Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security & Privacy and DSPA Security & Privacy, and Eugene Liderman, Director, Android Security StrategyLast week at Singapore International Cyber Week and the ETSI Security Conferences, the international community gathered together to … | Continue reading
David Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security & Privacy and DSPA Security & Privacy, and Eugene Liderman, Director, Android Security Strategy Last week at Singapore International Cyber Week and the ETSI Security Conferences, the international community gathered together t … | Continue reading
Posted by Steve Kafka, Group Product Manager and Roman Kirillov, Senior Engineering Manager Mobile devices have supercharged our modern lives, helping us do everything from purchasing goods in store and paying bills online to storing financial data, health records, passwords and … | Continue reading
Posted by Steve Kafka, Group Product Manager and Roman Kirillov, Senior Engineering Manager Mobile devices have supercharged our modern lives, helping us do everything from purchasing goods in store and paying bills online to storing financial data, health records, passwords and … | Continue reading
Ayush Khandelwal, Software Engineer, Michael Torres, Security Engineer, Hemil Patel, Technical Product Expert, Sameer Ladiwala, Software EngineerIn July 2023, four Googlers from the Enterprise Security and Access Security organizations developed a tool that aimed at revolutionizi … | Continue reading
Ayush Khandelwal, Software Engineer, Michael Torres, Security Engineer, Hemil Patel, Technical Program Manager, Sameer Ladiwala, Software Enginner In July 2023, four Googlers from the Enterprise Security and Access Security organizations developed a tool that aimed at revolutioni … | Continue reading
Posted by Andrew Walbran, Android Rust Team Last year we wrote about how moving native code in Android from C++ to Rust has resulted in fewer security vulnerabilities. Most of the components we mentioned then were system services in userspace (running under Linux), but these are … | Continue reading
Posted by Andrew Walbran, Android Rust Team Last year we wrote about how moving native code in Android from C++ to Rust has resulted in fewer security vulnerabilities. Most of the components we mentioned then were system services in userspace (running under Linux), but these are … | Continue reading
Stephen Roettger and Marios Pomonis, Google Software EngineersIn 2020, we launched a novel format for our vulnerability reward program (VRP) with the kCTF VRP and its continuation kernelCTF. For the first time, security researchers could get bounties for n-day exploits even if th … | Continue reading
Stephen Roettger and Marios Pomonis, Google Software Engineers In 2020, we launched a novel format for our vulnerability reward program (VRP) with the kCTF VRP and its continuation kernelCTF. For the first time, security researchers could get bounties for n-day exploits even if t … | Continue reading
Posted by Eugene Liderman and Roger Piqueras Jover SMS texting is frozen in time. People still use and rely on trillions of SMS texts each year to exchange messages with friends, share family photos, and copy two-factor authentication codes to access sensitive data in their ban … | Continue reading
Posted by Eugene Liderman and Roger Piqueras Jover SMS texting is frozen in time. People still use and rely on trillions of SMS texts each year to exchange messages with friends, share family photos, and copy two-factor authentication codes to access sensitive data in their bank … | Continue reading
Posted by Martin Geisler, Android team Android 14 is the third major Android release with Rust support. We are already seeing a number of benefits: Productivity: Developers quickly feel productive writing Rust. They report important indicators of development velocity, such as c … | Continue reading
Posted by Martin Geisler, Android team Android 14 is the third major Android release with Rust support. We are already seeing a number of benefits: Productivity: Developers quickly feel productive writing Rust. They report important indicators of development velocity, such as con … | Continue reading
Jess McClintock and John Dethridge, Google Open Source Security Team, and Damien Miller, Enterprise Infrastructure Protection TeamWhen you import a third party library, do you review every line of code? Most software packages depend on external libraries, trusting that those pack … | Continue reading
Jess McClintock and John Dethridge, Google Open Source Security Team, and Damien Miller, Enterprise Infrastructure Protection Team When you import a third party library, do you review every line of code? Most software packages depend on external libraries, trusting that those pac … | Continue reading
Posted by Jon Bottarini and Hamzeh Zawawy, Android Security Fuzzing is an effective technique for finding software vulnerabilities. Over the past few years Android has been focused on improving the effectiveness, scope, and convenience of fuzzing across the organization. This ef … | Continue reading
Posted by Hamzeh Zawawy and Jon Bottarini, Android Security Fuzzing is an effective technique for finding software vulnerabilities. Over the past few years Android has been focused on improving the effectiveness, scope, and convenience of fuzzing across the organization. This eff … | Continue reading
Dongge Liu, Jonathan Metzman, Oliver Chang, Google Open Source Security Team Since 2016, OSS-Fuzz has been at the forefront of automated vulnerability discovery for open source projects. Vulnerability discovery is an important part of keeping software supply chains secure, so our … | Continue reading
Dongge Liu, Jonathan Metzman, Oliver Chang, Google Open Source Security Team Since 2016, OSS-Fuzz has been at the forefront of automated vulnerability discovery for open source projects. Vulnerability discovery is an important part of keeping software supply chains secure, so our … | Continue reading
Elie Bursztein, cybersecurity and AI research director, Fabian Kaczmarczyck, software engineerAs part of our effort to deploy quantum resistant cryptography, we are happy to announce the release of the first quantum resilient FIDO2 security key implementation as part of OpenSK, o … | Continue reading