Marios Pomonis, Software EngineerGoogle is committed to enhancing the security of open-source technologies, especially those that make up the foundation for many of our products, like Linux and KVM. To this end we are excited to announce the launch of ...

Oliver Chang, Jonathan Metzman, OSS-Fuzz and Alex Rebert, Security EngineeringThe US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, recently kicked off a two-year AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), inviting top AI and cybersecurity experts to design new AI...

Hlynur Gudmundsson, Software EngineerIt’s Google CTF time! Install your tools, commit your scripts, and clear your schedule. The competition kicks off on June 21 2024 6:00 PM UTC and runs through June 23 2024 6:00 PM UTC. Registration is now open at go...

Matt Linton, Chaos SpecialistIn the late 19th and early 20th century, a series of catastrophic fires in short succession led an outraged public to demand action from the budding fire protection industry. Among the experts, one initial focus was on “Fir...

Sriram Karra and Christiaan Brand, Google product managersLast year, Google launched passkey support for Google Accounts. Passkeys are a new industry standard that give users an easy, highly secure way to sign-in to apps and websites. Today, we announc...

Lambert Rosique and Jan Keller, Security Workflow Automation, and Diana Kramer, Alexandra Bowen and Andrew Cho, Privacy and Security Incident ResponseIntroductionAs security professionals, we're constantly looking for ways to reduce risk and improve ou...

Tianhao Chi and Puneet Sood, Google Public DNSThe Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental protocol used on the Internet to translate human-readable domain names (e.g., www.example.com) into numeric IP addresses (e.g., 192.0.2.1) so that devices and s...

Alex Rebert, Software Engineer, Christoph Kern, Principal Engineer, Security FoundationsGoogle’s Project Zero reports that memory safety vulnerabilities—security defects caused by subtle coding errors related to how a program accesses memory—have been ...

Royal Hansen, Vice President of Privacy, Safety and Security EngineeringThis 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 Communicatio...

Dongge Liu and Oliver Chang, Google Open Source Security Team, Jan Nowakowski and Jan Keller, Machine Learning for Security TeamThe AI world moves fast, so we’ve been hard at work keeping security apace with recent advancements. One of our approaches, ...

Elie Bursztein, Cybersecurity & AI Research Director, and Marina Zhang, Software EngineerSystems such as Gmail, YouTube and Google Play rely on text classification models to identify harmful content including phishing attacks, inappropriate comment...

Royal Hansen, Vice President of Privacy, Safety and Security Engineering, GoogleNearly half of third-parties fail to meet two or more of the Minimum Viable Secure Product controls. Why is this a problem? Because "98% of organizations have a relationshi...

Mihai Maruseac, Sarah Meiklejohn, Mark Lodato, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST)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 ...

Eduardo Vela, Jan Keller and Ryan Rinaldi, Google Engineering 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 important developments invol...

David Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security & Privacy and DSPA Security & Privacy, and Eugene Liderman, Director, Android Security StrategyLast week at Singapore International Cyber Week and the ETSI Security Conferences, the internat...

Ayush Khandelwal, Software Engineer, Michael Torres, Security Engineer, Hemil Patel, Technical Program Manager, Sameer Ladiwala, Software EnginnerIn July 2023, four Googlers from the Enterprise Security and Access Security organizations developed a too...

Stephen Roettger and Marios Pomonis, Google Software EngineersIn 2020, we launched a novel format for our vulnerability reward program (VRP) with the kCTF VRP and its continuation kernelCTF. For the first time, security researchers could get bounties f...