First look: Google is focusing directly on one of the least protected parts of modern smartphones: the cellular baseband. But the company is not trying to rewrite decades of modem firmware. Instead, ...

Modern smartphone operating systems have myriad systems in place to improve security, but none of that helps when attackers target the modem. Google’s Project Zero team has shown it’s possible to get ...

Google is integrating the Rust programming language into the Pixel 10’s modem firmware to mitigate memory-safety vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows. The shift allows the modem to block Remote ...

Google is bringing Rust code to Pixel phones starting with the Pixel 10 as a security measure to prevent malicious attacks on the modem used inside Pixel 10 devices. This injection of Rust code is ...

The modem is a critical component of your phone, and it uses complex code to help perform its functions. For example, Google's Pixel modem firmware has tens of megabytes of executable code written in ...

Android phones like the Pixel devices are already pretty secure, but Pixel modem security has reportedly taken quite the turn recently, and that should make them even safer. Google has just announced ...