GOSB – 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 mitigates common exploits on cellular basebands. Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives, […]
GOSB – 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 can exploit to harm that user? Our security severity guidelines say “yes, sometimes.” For example, […]
GOSB – 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 use Google Messages to communicate. That’s why we’ve made security a top priority, building in […]
GOSB – 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 memory-unsafe codebases are due to memory safety bugs. Malicious actors exploit these vulnerabilities and continue […]
GOSB – 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 of her unlocked car, grabbing her phone. She struggled with him for a moment before […]
GOSB – 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 keeping your privacy top of mind. From Gmail’s defenses that stop more than 99.9% of […]
GOSB – Leveling Up Fuzzing: Finding more vulnerabilities with AI
Posted by Oliver Chang, Dongge Liu and Jonathan Metzman, Google Open Source Security Team Recently, OSS-Fuzz reported 26 new vulnerabilities to open source project maintainers, including one vulnerability in the critical OpenSSL library (CVE-2024-9143) that underpins much of internet infrastructure. The reports themselves aren’t unusual—we’ve reported and helped maintainers fix over 11,000 vulnerabilities in the […]
GOSB – Retrofitting spatial safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++
Posted by Alex Rebert and Max Shavrick, Security Foundations, and Kinuko Yasuda, Core Developer Attackers regularly exploit spatial memory safety vulnerabilities, which occur when code accesses a memory allocation outside of its intended bounds, to compromise systems and sensitive data. These vulnerabilities represent a major security risk to users. Based on an analysis of in-the-wild […]