3. Protecting you from bad apps
Dangerous apps that phish and steal your personal information, or hold your phone hostage and make you pay to unlock it, have no place on your smartphone—or any device, for that matter.
Google Play helps protect your Android device by rejecting bad apps that don’t comply with our
Play policies. It also conducts more than 200 million daily security scans of devices, in tandem with our
Safe Browsing system, for any signs of trouble. Last year, bad apps were installed on fewer than 0.13% of Android devices that install apps only from Google Play.
Learn more about these, and other Android security features — like app sandboxing,
monthly security updates for Nexus and other devices, and our
Security Rewards Program—in new research we’ve made public on our
Android blog.
4. Busting bad advertising practices
Malicious advertising “botnets” try to send phony visitors to websites to make money from online ads. Botnets threaten the businesses of honest advertisers and publishers, and because they’re often made up of devices infected with malware, they put users in harm’s way too.
We've worked to keep botnets out of our ads systems, cutting them out of advertising revenue, and making it harder to make money from distributing malware and
Unwanted Software. Now, as part of our effort to
fight bad ads online, we’re reinforcing our existing botnet defenses by automatically filtering traffic from three of the top ad fraud botnets, comprising more than 500,000 infected user machines. Learn more about this update on the
Doubleclick blog.
5. Moving the security conversation forward
Recent events—
Edward Snowden’s disclosures, the
Sony Hack, the
current conversation around encryption, and more—have made online safety a truly mainstream issue. This is reflected both in news headlines, and popular culture: “
Mr. Robot,” a TV series about hacking and cybersecurity, just won a Golden Globe for Best Drama, and
@SwiftOnSecurity, a popular security commentator, is named after Taylor Swift.
But despite this shift, security remains a complex topic that lends itself to lively debates between experts...that are often unintelligible to just about everyone else. We need to simplify the way we talk about online security to enable everyone to understand its importance and participate in this conversation.
To that end, we’re teaming up with
Medium to host a virtual roundtable about online security, present and future. Moderated by journalist and security researcher
Kevin Poulsen, this project aims to present fresh perspectives about online security in a time when our attention is increasingly ruled by the devices we carry with us constantly. We hope you’ll
tune in and check it out.
Online security and safety are being discussed more often, and with more urgency, than ever before. We hope you’ll take a few minutes today to learn how Google protects your data and how we can work toward a safer web, for everyone.
Posted by Gerhard Eschelbeck, VP, Security and Privacy https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTmcQyhl_kJ2vftV10bpV456P-uPX1YDZmEG7R7QKmQ-gYoQbL-5PJvT2NPB_Plyi_KupQSGNoWLPmEiF10yaSwgg5W1bcVW2vjUu3SSyILMtIAB4ONottX1ZwAt7co00b6IZZ/s1600/GOP-security_hero_1.jpg Gerhard Eschelbeck VP Security and Privacy
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