Posted by Eugene Liderman, Director of Mobile Security Strategy, Google As Mobile World Congress approaches, we have the opportunity to have deep and meaningful conversations across the industry about the present and future of connected device security. Ahead of the…
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Vulnerability Reward Program: 2022 Year in Review
Posted by Sarah Jacobus, Vulnerability Rewards Team It has been another incredible year for the Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRPs) at Google! Working with security researchers throughout 2022, we have been able to identify and fix over 2,900 security issues and…
Hardening Firmware Across the Android Ecosystem
Posted by Roger Piqueras Jover, Ivan Lozano, Sudhi Herle, and Stephan Somogyi, Android Team A modern Android powered smartphone is a complex hardware device: Android OS runs on a multi-core CPU – also called an Application Processor (AP). And the…
The US Government says companies should take more responsibility for cyberattacks. We agree.
Posted by Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs & Chief Legal Officer, Google & Alphabet and Royal Hansen, Vice President of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security Should companies be responsible for cyberattacks? The U.S. government thinks so – and frankly,…
Taking the next step: OSS-Fuzz in 2023
Posted by Oliver Chang, OSS-Fuzz team Since launching in 2016, Google’s free OSS-Fuzz code testing service has helped get over 8800 vulnerabilities and 28,000 bugs fixed across 850 projects. Today, we’re happy to announce an expansion of our OSS-Fuzz Rewards…
Taking the next step: OSS-Fuzz in 2023
Posted by Oliver Chang, OSS-Fuzz team Since launching in 2016, Google’s free OSS-Fuzz code testing service has helped get over 8800 vulnerabilities and 28,000 bugs fixed across 850 projects. Today, we’re happy to announce an expansion of our OSS-Fuzz Rewards…
Sustaining Digital Certificate Security – TrustCor Certificate Distrust
Posted by Chrome Root Program, Chrome Security Team Note: This post is a follow-up to discussions carried out on the Mozilla “Dev Security Policy” Web PKI public discussion forum Google Group in December 2022. Google Chrome communicated its distrust of…
Supporting the Use of Rust in the Chromium Project
Posted by Dana Jansens (she/her), Chrome Security Team We are pleased to announce that moving forward, the Chromium project is going to support the use of third-party Rust libraries from C++ in Chromium. To do so, we are now actively…