Announcing the Google Security and Privacy Research Awards

Posted by Elie Bursztein and Oxana Comanescu, Google Security and Privacy Group We believe that cutting-edge research plays a key role in advancing the security and privacy of users across the Internet. While we do significant in-house research and engineering to protect users’ data, we maintain strong ties with academic institutions worldwide. We provide seed … Devamını oku

Industry collaboration leads to takedown of the “3ve” ad fraud operation

Posted by Per Bjorke, Product Manager, Ad Traffic Quality For years, Google has been waging a comprehensive, global fight against invalid traffic through a combination of technology, policy, and operations teams to protect advertisers and publishers and increase transparency throughout the advertising industry. Last year, we identified one of the most complex and sophisticated ad … Devamını oku

Combating Potentially Harmful Applications with Machine Learning at Google: Datasets and Models

Posted by Mo Yu, Damien Octeau, and Chuangang Ren, Android Security & Privacy Team [Cross-posted from the Android Developers Blog] In a previous blog post, we talked about using machine learning to combat Potentially Harmful Applications (PHAs). This blog post covers how Google uses machine learning techniques to detect and classify PHAs. We’ll discuss the … Devamını oku

Introducing the Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report

Posted by Jason Woloz and Eugene Liderman, Android Security & Privacy Team Update: We identified a bug that affected how we calculated data from Q3 2018 in the Transparency Report. This bug created inconsistencies between the data in the report and this blog post. The data points in this blog post have been corrected. As … Devamını oku

A New Chapter for OSS-Fuzz

Posted by Matt Ruhstaller, TPM and Oliver Chang, Software Engineer, Google Security Team Open Source Software (OSS) is extremely important to Google, and we rely on OSS in a variety of customer-facing and internal projects. We also understand the difficulty and importance of securing the open source ecosystem, and are continuously looking for ways to … Devamını oku

Introducing reCAPTCHA v3: the new way to stop bots

Posted by Wei Liu, Google Product Manager [Cross-posted from the Google Webmaster Central Blog] Today, we’re excited to introduce reCAPTCHA v3, our newest API that helps you detect abusive traffic on your website without user interaction. Instead of showing a CAPTCHA challenge, reCAPTCHA v3 returns a score so you can choose the most appropriate action … Devamını oku

Google tackles new ad fraud scheme

Posted by Per Bjorke, Product Manager, Ad Traffic Quality Fighting invalid traffic is essential for the long-term sustainability of the digital advertising ecosystem. We have an extensive internal system to filter out invalid traffic – from simple filters to large-scale machine learning models – and we collaborate with advertisers, agencies, publishers, ad tech companies, research … Devamını oku

Android Protected Confirmation: Taking transaction security to the next level

Posted by Janis Danisevskis, Information Security Engineer, Android Security [Cross-posted from the Android Developers Blog] In Android Pie, we introduced Android Protected Confirmation, the first major mobile OS API that leverages a hardware protected user interface (Trusted UI) to perform critical transactions completely outside the main mobile operating system. This Trusted UI protects the choices … Devamını oku

Building a Titan: Better security through a tiny chip

Posted by Nagendra Modadugu and Bill Richardson, Google Device Security Group [Cross-posted from the Android Developers Blog] At the Made by Google event last week, we talked about the combination of AI + Software + Hardware to help organize your information. To better protect that information at a hardware level, our new Pixel 3 and … Devamını oku

Modernizing Transport Security

Posted by David Benjamin, Chrome networking *Updated on October 17, 2018 with details about changes in other browsers TLS (Transport Layer Security) is the protocol which secures HTTPS. It has a long history stretching back to the nearly twenty-year-old TLS 1.0 and its even older predecessor, SSL. Over that time, we have learned a lot … Devamını oku