Google Online Security Blog: May 2016

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Evolving the Safe Browsing API

May 20, 2016

Posted by Emily Schechter and Alex Wozniak, Safe Browsing Team
Safe Browsing API version 4Safe Browsingin 2007Safe Browsing client on AndroidWe’ve Done Most Of The Work For You Already

Check pages against the Safe Browsing lists based on platform and threat types.

Warn users before they click links that may lead to infected pages.

Prevent users from posting links to known infected pages

To make Safe Browsing integration as simple as possible, we’re also releasing a reference client implementation of the new API today, written in Go. It also provides a Safe Browsing HTTP proxy server, which supports JSON.

It’s easy to start protecting users with the new Version 4 of the Safe Browsing API. Sign up for a key and let us know what you think!

Hardening the media stack

May 5, 2016

Posted by Dan Austin and Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Security team[Cross-posted from the Android Developers Blog]rewardsecurity bulletins

Prevention: Stop bugs from becoming vulnerabilities

Containment: Protect the system by de-privileging and isolating components that handle untrusted content

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Figure 2. Containment

parsing code moved into unprivileged sandboxes that have few or no permissions

components that require sensitive permissions moved into separate sandboxes that only grant access to the specific resources the component needs. For example, only the cameraserver may access the camera, only the audioserver may access Bluetooth, and only the drmserver may access DRM resources.

Figure 3SELinuxseccomp Conclusionsecurity@android.com

Bringing HTTPS to all blogspot domain blogs

May 3, 2016

Posted by Milinda Perera, Software Engineer, Securitybegan

The HTTPS indicator in the Chrome browser

new setting called HTTPS Redirecthttpshttphttphttps

The new HTTPS Redirect setting in the Blogger dashboard

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