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Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas's...
Smashing Security podcast #466: Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired
Meta's smart glasses promise privacy "designed for you" - but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by hand....
AI threats in the wild: The current state of prompt injections on the web
Posted by Thomas Brunner, Yu-Han Liu, Moni PandeAt Google, our Threat Intelligence teams are dedicated to staying ahead of real-world adversarial activity, proactively monitoring emerging...
Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband
Posted by Jiacheng Lu, Software Engineer, Google Pixel Team Google is continuously advancing the security of Pixel devices. We have been focusing on hardening the...
Protecting Cookies with Device Bound Session Credentials
Posted by Ben Ackerman, Chrome team, Daniel Rubery, Chrome team and Guillaume Ehinger, Google Account Security team Following our April 2024 announcement, Device Bound Session...
Google Workspace’s continuous approach to mitigating indirect prompt injections
Posted by Adam Gavish, Google GenAI Security TeamIndirect prompt injection (IPI) is an evolving threat vector targeting users of complex AI applications with multiple data...
VRP 2025 Year in Review
Posted by Dirk Göhmann, Tony Mendez, and the Vulnerability Rewards Program Team2025 marked a special year in the history of vulnerability rewards and bug bounty...
Security for the Quantum Era: Implementing Post-Quantum Cryptography in Android
Posted by Eric Lynch, Product Manager, Android and Dom Elliott, Group Product Manager, Google Play Modern digital security is at a turning point. We are...
Cultivating a robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS
Posted by Chrome Secure Web and Networking Team Today we're announcing a new program in Chrome to make HTTPS certificates secure against quantum computers. The...
Staying One Step Ahead: Strengthening Android’s Lead in Scam Protection
Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager, Phone by Google; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse We’ve shared how...
Keeping Google Play & Android app ecosystems safe in 2025
Posted by Vijaya Kaza, VP and GM, App & Ecosystem Trust The Android ecosystem is a thriving global community built on trust, giving billions of...
New Android Theft Protection Feature Updates: Smarter, Stronger
Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky, Fabricio Ferracioli, Elliot Sisteron, Irene Ang of the Android Security Team Phone theft is more than just losing a device; it's...