Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband
2026-04-15T13:23:45Z•2be408221d246ca40607a14300ce2ad20aa66dff4a24f44d59aa2b0ac1a30ebd
Android 17Android scam protectionCertificate TransparencyChromeDBSCDNS parserGoogle WorkspaceIPILLM securityMTCMerkle Tree CertificatesPQCVRPVulnerability Rewards Programbasebandcookie theftdevice-bound session credentialsindirect prompt injectioninfostealermemory-safetymodempost-quantum cryptographyrustscam protectionsession hijacking
What happened
Collection of Google Security Blog posts (Apr 2026–Mar 2026) describing proactive platform and product security work: integrating a memory-safe Rust DNS parser into Pixel modem firmware to reduce memory-safety risks; public availability of Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) in Chrome to prevent cookie-based session theft; ongoing defenses and engineering against Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) in Workspace/GenAI; VRP 2025 year-in-review overview of Google’s vulnerability rewards program; Android’s rollout plan for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) starting in Android 17; Chrome efforts to研发
Why it matters
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- Source ID
- google_security_blog
- Record identifier
- 2be408221d246ca40607a14300ce2ad20aa66dff4a24f44d59aa2b0ac1a30ebd
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-15T13:23:45Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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