Google Is Building a Special Android Security Team to Hunt Bugs in Sensitive Apps

"Google is hiring to create a special Android security team that will be tasked with finding vulnerabilities in highly sensitive apps on the Google Play Store," reports ZDNet: "As a Security Engineering Manager in Android Security... Your team will perform application security assessments against highly sensitive, third party Android apps on Google Play, working to identify vulnerabilities and provide remediation guidance to impacted application developers," reads a new Google job listing posted on Wednesday.

Applications that this new team will focus on include the likes of COVID-19 contact tracing apps and election-related applications, with others to follow, according to Sebastian Porst, Software Engineering Manager for Google Play Protect.

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[BrendaEM]

This is Slashdot News? Really?

I can support this

[Aighearach]

If you have to kill a bug, it costs nothing to be sensitive.

After all, EveryoneIsHereInTheFuture! [everyoneis...future.com]

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Be Vewy Vewy Quiet

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I'm hunting wabbits.

They have no chance

[gweihir]

Finding well-placed backdoors in applications is massively more effort than rewriting then from scratch with trusted people. Google just does not have the resources to make a real difference here. I think they know that very well, so the whole thing serves only to give the appearance of doing something about the problem.

I look for the good man.

[LumiJoyy]

I look for the good man. I would be your Mistress!! Punish me! =>> https://kutt.it/TumcuH [kutt.it]

Sensitive applications on Android

[Shag]

Are we talking things that might contain PII or your medical record, or are we talking about SCADA stuff and national security? Are people using Android for applications sensitive that human lives are on the line if security is breached?