Posted by Bethel Otuteye and Khawaja Shams (Android Security and Privacy Team), and Ron Aquino (Play Trust and Safety) Android and Google Play comprise a vibrant ecosystem with billions of users around the globe and millions of helpful apps. Keeping…
Category: Google Online Security Blog
How we estimate the risk from prompt injection attacks on AI systems
Posted by the Agentic AI Security Team < div> Modern AI systems, like Gemini, are more capable than ever, helping retrieve data and perform actions on behalf of users. However, data from external sources present new security challenges if untrusted…
Android enhances theft protection with Identity Check and expanded features
Posted by Jianing Sandra Guo, Product Manager, Android, Nataliya Stanetsky, Staff Program Manager, Android Today, people around the world rely on their mobile devices to help them stay connected with friends and family, manage finances, keep track of healthcare information…
OSV-SCALIBR: A library for Software Composition Analysis
Posted by Erik Varga, Vulnerability Management, and Rex Pan, Open Source Security Team < div> In December 2022, we announced OSV-Scanner, a tool to enable developers to easily scan for vulnerabilities in their open source dependencies. Together with the open…
Google Cloud expands vulnerability detection for Artifact Registry using OSV
Posted by Greg Mucci, Product Manager, Artifact Analysis, Oliver Chang, Senior Staff Engineering, OSV, and Charl de Nysschen, Product Manager OSV DevOps teams dedicated to securing their supply chain and predicting potential risks consistently face novel threats. Fortunately, they can…
Announcing the launch of Vanir: Open-source Security Patch Validation
Posted by Hyunkwook Baek, Duy Truong, Justin Dunlap and Lauren Stan from Android Security and Privacy, and Oliver Chang with the Google Open Source Security Team < div> Today, we are announcing the availability of Vanir, a new open-source security…
Announcing the launch of Vanir: Open-source Security Patch Validation
Posted by Hyunwook Baek, Duy Truong, Justin Dunlap and Lauren Stan from Android Security and Privacy, and Oliver Chang from the Google Open Source Security Team Today, we are announcing the availability of Vanir, a new open-source security patch validation…
Safer with Google: New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe
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…
5 new protections on Google Messages to help 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 Every day, over a billion people…
Bringing new theft protection features to Android users around the world
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…
Safer with Google: Advancing Memory Safety
Posted by Alex Rebert, Security Foundations, and Chandler Carruth, Jen Engel, Andy Qin, Core Developers Error-prone interactions between software and memory1 are widely understood to create safety issues in software. It is estimated that about 70% of severe vulnerabilities2 in…
Using Chrome’s accessibility APIs to find security bugs
Posted by Adrian Taylor, Security Engineer, Chrome Chrome’s user interface (UI) code is complex, and sometimes has bugs. Are those bugs security bugs? Specifically, if a user’s clicks and actions result in memory corruption, is that something that an attacker…
Evaluating Mitigations & Vulnerabilities in Chrome
Posted by Alex Gough, Chrome Security Team The Chrome Security Team is constantly striving to make it safer to browse the web. We invest in mechanisms to make classes of security bugs impossible, mitigations that make it more difficult to…
Pixel’s Proactive Approach to Security: Addressing Vulnerabilities in Cellular Modems
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…
Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source
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 building…
Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source
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 building…
A new path for Kyber on the web
Posted by David Adrian, David Benjamin, Bob Beck & Devon O’Brien, Chrome Team We previously posted about experimenting with a hybrid post-quantum key exchange, and enabling it for 100% of Chrome Desktop clients. The hybrid key exchange used both the…
Deploying Rust in Existing Firmware Codebases
< p style=”text-align: left;”>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 foundation,…
Virtual Escape; Real Reward: Introducing Google’s kvmCTF
Marios Pomonis, Software Engineer < div> Google is committed to enhancing the security of open-source technologies, especially those that make up the foundation for many of our products, like Linux and KVM. To this end we are excited to announce…
Sustaining Digital Certificate Security – Entrust Certificate Distrust
Posted by Chrome Root Program, Chrome Security Team The Chrome Security Team prioritizes the security and privacy of Chrome’s users, and we are unwilling to compromise on these values. The Chrome Root Program Policy states that CA certificates included in…