Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband
2026-04-15T19:23:43Z•63d59a15afffd36870fb3b85bfa26ad13ee282feb7179997376b6b2202515e1b
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What happened
This collection of Google Security Blog posts describes multiple high-impact security initiatives: Pixel 10 modem firmware hardening by integrating a memory-safe Rust DNS parser to reduce class-wide memory-safety bugs in the baseband; Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) rolling out to prevent cookie/session theft in Chrome; ongoing defenses and mitigation strategies for indirect prompt injection (IPI) against LLMs in Google Workspace/Gemini; a 2025 year-in-review for Google’s Vulnerability Rewards Program; Android’s migration path to Post‑Quantum Cryptography starting in Android 17 beta; a
Why it matters
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- Source ID
- google_security_blog
- Record identifier
- 63d59a15afffd36870fb3b85bfa26ad13ee282feb7179997376b6b2202515e1b
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-15T19:23:43Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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