Posted by Rob Barnes & Shawn Willden, Android Security & Privacy Team Billions of people rely on their Android-powered devices to securely store their sensitive information. A vital component of the Android security stack is the key attestation system. Android devices since Android 7.0 are able to generate an attestation […]
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Posted by Adam Bacchus, Sebastian Porst, and Patrick Mutchler — Android Security & Privacy We’re constantly looking for ways to further improve the security and privacy of our products, and the ecosystems they support. At Google, we understand the strength of open platforms and ecosystems, and that the best ideas don’t always […]
Posted by Rene Mayrhofer and Xiaowen Xin, Android Security & Privacy Team With every new version of Android, one of our top priorities is raising the bar for security. Over the last few years, these improvements have led to measurable progress across the ecosystem, and 2018 was no different. In […]
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Security & Privacy Team and Chong Zhang, Android Media Team Android Q Beta versions are now publicly available. Among the various new features introduced in Android Q are some important security hardening changes. While exciting new security features are added in each Android release, […]
Posted by Anwar Ghuloum, Engineering Director and Maya Ben Ari, Product Manager, Android With each new OS release, we are making efforts to deliver the latest OS improvements to more Android devices. Thanks to Project Treble and our continuous collaboration with silicon manufacturers and OEM partners, we have improved the […]
Posted by Edward Cunningham, Android Security & Privacy Team In a previous blog we described how API behavior changes advance the security and privacy protections of Android, and include user experience improvements that prevent apps from accidentally overusing resources like battery and memory. Since November 2018, all app updates on […]
Posted by Andrew Ahn, Product Manager, Google Play Google Play is committed to providing a secure and safe platform for billions of Android users on their journey discovering and experiencing the apps they love and enjoy. To deliver against this commitment, we worked last year to improve our abuse detection […]
Posted by Vikrant Nanda and René Mayrhofer, Android Security & Privacy Team There is no better time to talk about Android dessert releases than the holidays because who doesn’t love dessert? And what is one of our favorite desserts during the holiday season? Well, pie of course. In all seriousness, […]
With tons of new technology coming out in the 21st century, it’s extremely important that you know what each of these terms means. You don’t want to be looking like a complete fool when your tech-savvy buddies are going around using these terms and you have no idea what they […]
Recently at Mobiconf in Kraków I saw Marcos Placona give an excellent talk about making apps more secure. One of the subjects that he covered was that of certificate pinning which can really help to secure your API calls to your server. In this short series we’ll take a look […]