Sustaining Digital Certificate Security – TrustCor Certificate Distrust
Posted by Chrome Root Program, Chrome Security Team Note: This post is a follow-up to discussions carried out on the Mozilla “Dev Security Policy” Web PKI public discussion forum Google Group in December 2022. Google Chrome communicated its distrust...
Supporting the Use of Rust in the Chromium Project
Posted by Dana Jansens (she/her), Chrome Security Team We are pleased to announce that moving forward, the Chromium project is going to support the use of third-party Rust libraries from C++ in Chromium. To do so, we are...
Expanding the App Defense Alliance
Posted by Brooke Davis, Android Security and Privacy Team The App Defense Alliance launched in 2019 with a mission to protect Android users from bad apps through shared intelligence and coordinated detection between alliance partners. Earlier this year,...
Announcing OSV-Scanner: Vulnerability Scanner for Open Source
Posted by Rex Pan, software engineer, Google Open Source Security TeamToday, we’re launching the OSV-Scanner, a free tool that gives open source developers easy access to vulnerability information relevant to their project. Last year, we undertook an effort to...
Trust in transparency: Private Compute Core
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, Dianne Hackborn, and Eugenio Marchiori We care deeply about privacy. We also know that trust is built by transparency. This blog, and the technical paper reference within, is an example of that commitment: we...
Enhanced Protection – The strongest level of Safe Browsing protection Google Chrome has to offer
Posted by Benjamin Ackerman (Chrome Security and Jonathan Li (Safe Browsing) As a follow-up to a previous blog post about How Hash-Based Safe Browsing Works in Google Chrome, we wanted to provide more details about Safe Browsing’s Enhanced Protection...
Memory Safe Languages in Android 13
Posted by Jeffrey Vander Stoep For more than a decade, memory safety vulnerabilities have consistently represented more than 65% of vulnerabilities across products, and across the industry. On Android, we’re now seeing something different - a significant drop in...
Our Principles for IoT Security Labeling
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, Eugene Liderman, and Android and Made by Google security teams We believe that security and transparency are paramount pillars for electronic products connected to the Internet. Over the past year, we’ve been excited to...
Announcing GUAC, a great pairing with SLSA (and SBOM)!
Posted by Brandon Lum, Mihai Maruseac, Isaac Hepworth, Google Open Source Security Team Supply chain security is at the fore of the industry’s collective consciousness. We’ve recently seen a significant rise in software supply chain attacks, a Log4j vulnerability...
Security of Passkeys in the Google Password Manager
Posted by Arnar Birgisson, Software EngineerWe are excited to announce passkey support on Android and Chrome for developers to test today, with general availability following later this year. In this post we cover details on how passkeys stored in...
Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro: The next evolution in mobile security
Dave Kleidermacher, Jesse Seed, Brandon Barbello, Sherif Hanna, Eugene Liderman, Android, Pixel, and Silicon Security Teams Every day, billions of people around the world trust Google products to enrich their lives and provide helpful features – across mobile...
Use-after-freedom: MiraclePtr
Posted by Adrian Taylor, Bartek Nowierski and Kentaro Hara on behalf of the MiraclePtr team Memory safety bugs are the most numerous category of Chrome security issues and we’re continuing to investigate many solutions – both in C++...
Fuzzing beyond memory corruption: Finding broader classes of vulnerabilities automatically
Posted by Jonathan Metzman, Dongge Liu and Oliver Chang, Google Open Source Security Team Recently, OSS-Fuzz—our community fuzzing service that regularly checks 700 critical open source projects for bugs—detected a serious vulnerability (CVE-2022-3008): a bug in the TinyGLTF project...
Announcing Google’s Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program
Posted by Francis Perron, Open Source Security Technical Program ManagerToday, we are launching Google’s Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) to reward discoveries of vulnerabilities in Google’s open source projects. As the maintainer of major projects such...
Announcing the Open Sourcing of Paranoid’s Library
Posted by Pedro Barbosa, Security Engineer, and Daniel Bleichenbacher, Software EngineerParanoid is a project to detect well-known weaknesses in large amounts of crypto artifacts, like public keys and digital signatures. On August 3rd 2022 we open sourced the library containing...
GitHub says hackers cloned code-signing certificates in breached repository
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GitHub said unknown intruders gained unauthorized access to some of its code repositories and stole code-signing certificates for two of its desktop applications: Desktop and Atom.
Code-signing certificates place...
QNAP addresses a critical flaw impacting its NAS devices
Taiwanese vendor QNAP is warning customers to install QTS and QuTS firmware updates to address a critical flaw impacting its NAS devices.
QNAP released QTS and QuTS firmware updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-27596 (CVSS v3 score: 9.8), that...
Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak
Schools' laptops are out if this one gets around, but beware bricking Users of enterprise-managed Chromebooks now, for better or worse, have a way to break the shackles of administrative control through an exploit called SHI1MMER.…
MusicLM: Google AI generates music in various genres at 24 kHz
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an exploding ball of music. (credit: Ars Technica)
On Thursday, researchers from Google announced a new generative AI model called MusicLM that can create...
Russia's Sandworm APT Launches Swarm of Wiper Attacks in Ukraine
The incidents are the latest indication of the growing popularity of dangerous disk wipers, created to disrupt and degrade critical infrastructure and other organizations.
