February 2nd, 2012 | by Jay | published in Google Online Security, Uncategorized
Posted by Adrian Ludwig, Android Security EngineerWe frequently get asked about how we defend Android users from malware and other threats. As the Android platform continues its tremendous growth, people wonder how we can maintain a trustworthy experie…
January 30th, 2012 | by Jay | published in Google Online Security, Uncategorized
(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog)Posted by Adam Dawes, Product ManagerEmail phishing, in which someone tries to trick you into revealing personal information by sending fake emails that look legitimate, remains one of the biggest online threats. One o…
January 17th, 2012 | by Jay | published in Google Online Security, Uncategorized
Posted by Alma Whitten, Director of Privacy, Product and Engineering(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)Does this person sound familiar? He can’t be bothered to type a password into his phone every time he wants to play a game of Angry Birds….
December 1st, 2011 | by Jay | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Nav Jagpal, Security TeamFor the past year, we’ve been sending notifications to network administrators registered through the Safe Browsing Alerts for Network Administrators service when our automated tools find phishing URLs or compromised…
November 22nd, 2011 | by Jay | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Brian Ryner, Security TeamIn May we announced that we are ending support for the Safe Browsing protocol version 1 on December 1 in order to focus our resources on the new version 2 API and the lookup service. These new APIs provide simpler an…
November 22nd, 2011 | by Jay | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Adam Langley, Security TeamLast year we introduced HTTPS by default for Gmail and encrypted search. We’re pleased to see that other major communications sites are following suit and deploying HTTPS in one form or another. We are now pushing…
October 6th, 2011 | by Panayiotis Mavrommatis | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Nav Jagpal, Security TeamToday, we’re congratulating Safe Browsing Alerts for Network Administrators on its graduation from Labs to its new home at http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/alerts/We announced the tool about a year ago and have re…
September 8th, 2011 | by Jay | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Eric Grosse, VP Security EngineeringWe learned last week that the compromise of a Dutch company involved with verifying the authenticity of websites could have put the Internet communications of many Iranians at risk, including their Gmail. W…
August 29th, 2011 | by Chris Evans | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Heather Adkins, Information Security Manager
Today we received reports of attempted SSL man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks against Google users, whereby someone tried to get between them and encrypted Google services. The people affected were …
August 17th, 2011 | by Jay | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Lucas Ballard and Niels Provos, Google Security Team
Google’s Safe Browsing initiative has been protecting users from web pages that install malware for over five years now. Each day we show around 3 million malware warnings to over four h…
August 12th, 2011 | by Jay | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Chris Evans, Matt Moore and Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team
One of the exciting things about working on security at Google is that you have a lot of compute horsepower available if you need it. This is very useful if you’re looking to …
July 28th, 2011 | by Jay | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Nishit Shah, Product Manager, Google Security(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)Earlier this year, we introduced a security feature called 2-step verification that helps protect your Google Account from threats like password compromi…
July 19th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Damian Menscher, Security Engineer(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)The Internet brings remarkable benefits to society. Unfortunately, some people use it for harm and their own gain at the expense of others. We believe in the power …
June 21st, 2011 | by Jay | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Radoslav Vasilev, Security Test Engineer(Cross-posted from the Google Testing Blog)Every day modern web applications are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and as their complexity grows so does their attack surface. Previously we introduced…
June 17th, 2011 | by Jay | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Oliver Fisher, Google Anti-Malware TeamOver the past few months, Google’s systems have detected a number of bulk subdomain providers becoming targets of abuse by malware distributors. Bulk subdomain providers register a domain name, like ex…
