Google is eyeing up a generic Linux kernel for Android, but even that won't fix Android's fragmentation issues. Here's why.

Android Oreo has also introduced 'Privileged Access Never emulation', a software version of ARM v8.1's hardware-based PAN, which helps prevent the kernel from accessing user space memory directly ...

Google's new Pixel 3 handset is the first Android device to feature a new kernel code protection system, the company said today. Named Control Flow Integrity (CFI), this technique works by ...

For Android versions 13 through 16, smartphone users must download and install the most recent security updates to keep their ...

The newest Linux kernel, version 3.3, includes code from Google's Android project. That should help both Android and other Linux-based projects.

Future versions of Android will be more resilient to exploits thanks to developers’ efforts to integrate the latest Linux kernel defenses into the operating system. Android’s security model ...

One kernel to boot them all Google outlines plans for mainline Linux kernel support in Android Google wants less forking, more modularization for Android's Linux kernel.

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 ...

The Linux Plumbers Conference is this week, and since Android is one of the biggest distributors of the Linux kernel in the world, Google software engineer Todd Kjos stopped by for a progress ...