Posted by Chrome Root Program Team Secure connections are the backbone of the modern web, but a certificate is only as trustworthy as the validation process and issuance practices behind it. Recently, the Chrome Root Program and the CA/Browser Forum…
Category: Google Online Security Blog
Further Hardening Android GPUs
Posted by Liz Prucka, Hamzeh Zawawy, Rishika Hooda, Android Security and Privacy Team Last year, Google’s Android Red Team partnered with Arm to conduct an in-depth security analysis of the Mali GPU, a component used in billions of Android devices…
Architecting Security for Agentic Capabilities in Chrome
Posted by Nathan Parker, Chrome security team Chrome has been advancing the web’s security for well over 15 years, and we’re committed to meeting new challenges and opportunities with AI. Billions of people trust Chrome to keep them safe by…
Android expands pilot for in-call scam protection for financial apps
Posted by Aden Haussmann, Associate Product Manager and Sumeet Sharma, Play Partnerships Trust & Safety Lead Android uses the best of Google AI and our advanced security expertise to tackle mobile scams from every angle. Over the last few years,…
Android Quick Share Support for AirDrop: A Secure Approach to Cross-Platform File Sharing
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP, Platforms Security & Privacy, Google Technology should bring people closer together, not create walls. Being able to communicate and connect with friends and family should be easy regardless of the phone they use. That’s why…
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we look at how this approach isn’t just…
How Android provides the most effective protection to keep you safe from mobile scams
Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager, Phone by Google; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse; Vijay Pareek, Manager, Android Messaging Trust and Safety As Cybersecurity Awareness Month wraps up, we’re focusing on one…
How Android provides the most effective protection to keep you safe from mobile scams
Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager, Phone by Google; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse; Vijay Pareek, Manager, Android Messaging & Chrome Extensions Security As Cybersecurity Awareness Month wraps up, we’re focusing on…
HTTPS by default
One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secure Connections”. This means Chrome will ask for the user’s permission before the first access…
Accelerating adoption of AI for cybersecurity at DEF CON 33
Posted by Elie Bursztein and Marianna Tishchenko, Google Privacy, Safety and Security Team Empowering cyber defenders with AI is critical to tilting the cybersecurity balance back in their favor as they battle cybercriminals and keep users safe. To help accelerate adoption…
Supporting Rowhammer research to protect the DRAM ecosystem
Posted by Daniel Moghimi Rowhammer is a complex class of vulnerabilities across the industry. It is a hardware vulnerability in DRAM where repeatedly accessing a row of memory can cause bit flips in adjacent rows, leading to data corruption. This…
How Pixel and Android are bringing a new level of trust to your images with C2PA Content Credentials
Posted by Eric Lynch, Senior Product Manager, Android Security, and Sherif Hanna, Group Product Manager, Google C2PA Core At Made by Google 2025, we announced that the new Google Pixel 10 phones will support C2PA Content Credentials in Pixel Camera…
Android’s pKVM Becomes First Globally Certified Software to Achieve Prestigious SESIP Level 5 Security Certification
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security & Privacy Today marks a watershed moment and new benchmark for open-source security and the future of consumer electronics. Google is proud to announce that protected KVM (pKVM), the hypervisor that powers…
Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last
Posted by Matthew Suozzo, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST) Today we’re excited to announce OSS Rebuild, a new project to strengthen trust in open source package ecosystems by reproducing upstream artifacts. As supply chain attacks continue to target widely-used…
Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last
Posted by Matthew Suozzo, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST) Today we’re excited to announce OSS Rebuild, a new project to strengthen trust in open source package ecosystems by reproducing upstream artifacts. As supply chain attacks continue to target widely-used…
Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last
Posted by Matthew Suozzo, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST) Today we’re excited to announce OSS Rebuild, a new project to strengthen trust in open source package ecosystems by reproducing upstream artifacts. As supply chain attacks continue to target widely-used…
Advancing Protection in Chrome on Android
Posted by David Adrian, Javier Castro & Peter Kotwicz, Chrome Security Team Android recently announced Advanced Protection, which extends Google’s Advanced Protection Program to a device-level security setting for Android users that need heightened security—such as journalists, elected officials, and…
Mitigating prompt injection attacks with a layered defense strategy
Posted by Google GenAI Security Team With the rapid adoption of generative AI, a new wave of threats is emerging across the industry with the aim of manipulating the AI systems themselves. One such emerging attack vector is indirect prompt…
Sustaining Digital Certificate Security – Upcoming Changes to the Chrome Root Store
Posted by Chrome Root Program, Chrome Security Team Note: Google Chrome communicated its removal of default trust of Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock in the public forum on May 30, 2025. The Chrome Root Program Policy states that Certification Authority (CA)…
Tracking the Cost of Quantum Factoring
Posted by Craig Gidney, Quantum Research Scientist, and Sophie Schmieg, Senior Staff Cryptography Engineer < div> Google Quantum AI’s mission is to build best in class quantum computing for otherwise unsolvable problems. For decades the quantum and security communities have…