Google has outlined four key kernel hardening features its engineers have backported from upstream Linux to Android kernels on devices that ship with Android 8.0 Oreo. They will benefit "all ...

Google is eyeing up a generic Linux kernel for Android, but even that won't fix Android's fragmentation issues. Here's why. Android fragmentation will never end, here's why - Android Authority ...

Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, but it has always used a heavily-modified version with changes from OEMs, chip manufacturers like Qualcomm and MediaTek, and Google. There have been ...

Is the Linux kernel a security problem? Security is an ongoing ... more than a billion Android phones, and not to mention the coming tsunami of grossly insecure devices that will be hitched ...

The Linux kernel today faces an unprecedented safety crisis. Much like when Ralph Nader famously told the American public that their cars were "unsafe at any speed" back in 1965, numerous security ...

CISA warns CVE-2023-0386 is being actively exploited, impacting Linux systems via OverlayFS. Patching is urgent.

A novel Android attack vector from a piece of malware tracked as Snowblind is abusing a security feature to bypass existing anti-tampering protections in apps that handle sensitive user data.

OEM manufacturers launching phones based on Android 15 or later will now be required to use either the 6.1 or 6.6 LTS branch of the Linux kernel. Linux LTS is regularly maintained with security ...

The ChromeOS team will use the Android Linux kernel and Android frameworks within ChromeOS. The process will allow AI advancements come to Chromebooks faster than if they were developed separately.