Showing posts with label Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Security. Show all posts

Security

SafetyNet attestation, a building block for anti-abuse

SafetyNet attestation, a building block for anti-abuse

Posted by Arindam Basu, Borbala Benko, Alan Butler, Edward Cunningham, William Luh Building innovative security features for Android app dev...
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Diverse protections for a diverse ecosystem: Android Security 2016 Year in Review

Posted by Adrian Ludwig & Mel Miller, Android Security Team Today, we're sharing the third annual Android Security Year In Review, a...
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Detecting and eliminating Chamois, a fraud botnet on Android

Posted by Security Software Engineers—Bernhard Grill, Megan Ruthven, and Xin Zhao Google works hard to protect users across a variety of dev...
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App Security Improvements: Looking back at 2016

Posted by Rahul Mishra, Android Security Program Manager In April 2016, the Android Security team described how the Google Play App Security...
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Silence speaks louder than words when finding malware

Posted by Megan Ruthven, Software Engineer In Android Security, we're constantly working to better understand how to make Android device...
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Pixel Security: Better, Faster, Stronger

Posted by Paul Crowley, Senior Software Engineer and Paul Lawrence, Senior Software Engineer Encryption protects your data if your phone fal...
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Keeping Android safe: Security enhancements in Nougat

Posted by Xiaowen Xin, Android Security Team Over the course of the summer, we previewed a variety of security enhancements in Android 7.0 N...
Protecting Android with more Linux kernel defenses

Protecting Android with more Linux kernel defenses

Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Security team Android relies heavily on the Linux kernel for enforcement of its security model. To bett...
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Strictly Enforced Verified Boot with Error Correction

Posted by Sami Tolvanen, Software Engineer Overview Android uses multiple layers of protection to keep users safe. One of these layers is ve...
Changes to Trusted Certificate Authorities in Android Nougat

Changes to Trusted Certificate Authorities in Android Nougat

Posted by Chad Brubaker, Android Security team In Android Nougat, we’ve changed how Android handles trusted certificate authorities (CAs) to...
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Security "Crypto" provider deprecated in Android N

Posted by Sergio Giro, software engineer If your Android app derives keys using the SHA1PRNG algorithm from the Crypto provider, you must st...
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Hardening the media stack

Posted by Dan Austin and Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Security team To help make Android more secure, we encourage and reward researchers who...
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Enhancing App Security on Google Play

Posted by Eric Davis , Android Security Team We’re constantly investing in new tools and services to help developers build secure Android ap...