Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky, Android Security and Privacy Team The App Defense Alliance (ADA), an industry-leading collaboration launched by Google in 2019 dedicated to ensuring the safety of the app ecosystem, is taking a major step forward. We are proud…
Category: Google Online Security Blog
MTE – The promising path forward for memory safety
Posted by Andy Qin, Irene Ang, Kostya Serebryany, Evgenii Stepanov Since 2018, Google has partnered with ARM and collaborated with many ecosystem partners (SoCs vendors, mobile phone OEMs, etc.) to develop Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) technology. We are now happy…
More ways for users to identify independently security tested apps on Google Play
Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky, Android Security and Privacy Team Keeping Google Play safe for users and developers remains a top priority for Google. As users increasingly prioritize their digital privacy and security, we continue to invest in our Data Safety…
Qualified certificates with qualified risks
Posted by Chrome Security team Improving the interoperability of web services is an important and worthy goal. We believe that it should be easier for people to maintain and control their digital identities. And we appreciate that policymakers working on…
Joint Industry statement of support for Consumer IoT Security Principles
David Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security & Privacy and DSPA Security & Privacy, and Eugene Liderman, Director, Android Security Strategy Last week at Singapore International Cyber Week and the ETSI Security Conferences, the international community gathered together to discuss cybersecurity…
Google’s reward criteria for reporting bugs in AI products
Eduardo Vela, Jan Keller and Ryan Rinaldi, Google Engineering < div> In September, we shared how we are implementing the voluntary AI commitments that we and others in industry made at the White House in July. One of the most…
Increasing transparency in AI security
Mihai Maruseac, Sarah Meiklejohn, Mark Lodato, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST) < div> New AI innovations and applications are reaching consumers and businesses on an almost-daily basis. Building AI securely is a paramount concern, and we believe that Google’s…
Scaling Rust Adoption Through Training
Posted by Martin Geisler, Android team Android 14 is the third major Android release with Rust support. We are already seeing a number of benefits: Productivity: Developers quickly feel productive writing Rust. They report important indicators of development velocity, such…
Capslock: What is your code really capable of?
Jess McClintock and John Dethridge, Google Open Source Security Team, and Damien Miller, Enterprise Infrastructure Protection Team When you import a third party library, do you review every line of code? Most software packages depend on external libraries, trusting that…