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…
Category: Google Online Security Blog
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…