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Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager and Steve Kafka, Group Product Manager, Android
User safety is at the heart of everything we do at Google. Our mission to make technology helpful for everyone means building features that protect you while… Continue reading Safer with Google: New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe
Posted by Jan Jedrzejowicz, Director of Product, Android and Business Communications; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse; Stephan Somogyi, Product Lead, User Protection; Branden Archer, Software Engineer
… Continue reading 5 new protections on Google Messages to help keep you safe
Posted by Jianing Sandra Guo, Product Manager and Nataliya Stanetsky, Staff Program Manager, Android
Janine Roberta Ferreira was driving home from work in São Paulo when she stopped at a traffic light. A man suddenly appeared and broke the window o… Continue reading Bringing new theft protection features to Android users around the world
Posted by Sherk Chung, Stephan Chen, Pixel team, and Roger Piqueras Jover, Ivan Lozano, Android team
Pixel phones have earned a well-deserved reputation for being security-conscious. In this blog, we’ll take a peek under the hood to see how Pixel mit… Continue reading Pixel’s Proactive Approach to Security: Addressing Vulnerabilities in Cellular Modems
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep – Android team, and Alex Rebert – Security Foundations
Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a pervasive threat to software security. At Google, we believe the path to eliminating this class of vulnerabilities at scale and … Continue reading Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source
Posted by Xuan Xing, Eugene Rodionov, Jon Bottarini, Adam Bacchus – Android Red Team;
Amit Chaudhary, Lyndon Fawcett, Joseph Artgole – Arm Product Security Team
Who cares about GPUs?
You, me, and the entire ecosystem! GPUs (graphics processin… Continue reading Google & Arm – Raising The Bar on GPU Security
Posted by Ivan Lozano and Dominik Maier, Android Team Android’s use of safe-by-design principles drives our adoption of memory-safe languages like Rust, making exploitation of the OS increasingly difficult with every release. To provide a secure founda… Continue reading Deploying Rust in Existing Firmware Codebases
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy, and Giles Hogben, Senior Director, Privacy Engineering, Android
Your smartphone holds a lot of your personal information to help you get things done every day. On Android, we… Continue reading Private AI For All: Our End-To-End Approach to AI Privacy on Android
Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky and Roger Piqueras Jover, Android Security & Privacy Team
Cell-site simulators, also known as False Base Stations (FBS) or Stingrays, are radio devices that mimic real cell sites in order to lure mobile devices to connect… Continue reading Keeping your Android device safe from text message fraud
Posted by Steve Kafka and Khawaja Shams (Android Security and Privacy Team), and Mohet Saxena (Play Trust and Safety)
A safe and trusted Google Play experience is our top priority. We leverage our SAFE (see below) principles to provide the framework … Continue reading How we fought bad apps and bad actors in 2023