Royal Hansen, Vice President of Privacy, Safety and Security Engineering This week, the United Nations convened member states to continue its years-long negotiations on the UN Cybercrime Treaty, titled “Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes.”
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Scaling security with AI: from detection to solution
Dongge Liu and Oliver Chang, Google Open Source Security Team, Jan Nowakowski and Jan Keller, Machine Learning for Security Team < div> The AI world moves fast, so we’ve been hard at work keeping security apace with recent advancements. One…
Effortlessly upgrade to Passkeys on Pixel phones with Google Password Manager
Posted by Sherif Hanna, Group Product Manager, Pixel Security Helping Pixel owners upgrade to the easier, safer way to sign in Your phone contains a lot of your personal information, from financial data to photos. Pixel phones are designed to…
Hardening cellular basebands in Android
Posted by Ivan Lozano and Roger Piqueras Jover Android’s defense-in-depth strategy applies not only to the Android OS running on the Application Processor (AP) but also the firmware that runs on devices. We particularly prioritize hardening the cellular baseband given…
Evolving the App Defense Alliance
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…
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…