Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy



Android’s intelligent protections keep you safe from everyday dangers. Our dedication to your security is validated by security experts, who consistently rank top Android dev...

Posted by Il-Sung Lee, Group Product Manager, Android Security


Protecting users who need heightened security has been a long-standing commitment at Google, which is why we have our Advanced Protection Program that provides Google’s strongest protecti...

Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager, Phone by Google; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse


Google has been at the forefront of protecting users from the ever-growing threat of scams and fraud with ...

Posted by Bethel Otuteye and Khawaja Shams (Android Security and Privacy Team), and Ron Aquino (Play Trust and Safety)


Android and Google Play comprise a vibrant ecosystem with billions of users around the globe and millions of helpful apps. Keeping ...

Posted by Jianing Sandra Guo, Product Manager, Android, Nataliya Stanetsky, Staff Program Manager, Android


Today, people around the world rely on their mobile devices to help them stay connected with friends and family, manage finances, keep track of...

Posted by Hyunwook Baek, Duy Truong, Justin Dunlap and Lauren Stan from Android Security and Privacy, and Oliver Chang with the Google Open Source Security TeamToday, we are announcing the availability of Vanir, a new open-source security patch validat...

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...

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


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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 o...

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 mit...

Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep - Android team, and Alex Rebert - Security Foundations


Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a pervasive threat to software security. At Google, we believe the path to eliminating this class of vulnerabilities at scale and ...

Posted by Xuan Xing, Eugene Rodionov, Jon Bottarini, Adam Bacchus - Android Red Team;
Amit Chaudhary, Lyndon Fawcett, Joseph Artgole - Arm Product Security Team


Who cares about GPUs?



You, me, and the entire ecosystem! GPUs (graphics processin...

Posted by Ivan Lozano and Dominik Maier, Android Team Android's use of safe-by-design principles drives our adoption of memory-safe languages like Rust, making exploitation of the OS increasingly difficult with every release. To provide a secure founda...