Latest Pixel news

Google shares fix for Pixel phones hit by bad system update

Google has shared a temporary fix for owners of Google Pixel devices that were rendered unusable after installing the January 2024 Google Play system update.
- Bill Toulas
- February 01, 2024
- 11:05 AM
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Google Pixel phones unusable after January 2024 system update

Google Pixel smartphone owners report problems after installing the January 2024 Google Play system update, being unable to access their devices internal storage, open the camera, take screenshots, or even open apps.
- Bill Toulas
- January 24, 2024
- 10:13 AM
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Google Pixel flaw allowed recovery of redacted, cropped images

An 'Acropalypse' flaw in Google Pixel's Markup tool made it possible to partially recover edited or redacted screenshots and images, including those that have been cropped or had their contents masked, for the past five years.
- Bill Toulas
- March 20, 2023
- 10:54 AM
- 0
Android December 2022 security updates fix 81 vulnerabilities

Google has released the December 2022 security update for Android, fixing four critical-severity vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution flaw exploitable via Bluetooth.
- Bill Toulas
- December 06, 2022
- 11:36 AM
- 0
Android phone owner accidentally finds a way to bypass lock screen

Cybersecurity researcher David Schütz accidentally found a way to bypass the lock screen on his fully patched Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 5 smartphones, enabling anyone with physical access to the device to unlock it.
- Bill Toulas
- November 12, 2022
- 10:07 AM
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Researcher 'reverses' redaction, extracts words from pixelated image

A researcher has demonstrated how he was able to successfully recover text that had been redacted using the pixelation technique. Further, the researcher has released a GitHub tool that can be used by anyone to reconstruct text from obscure, pixelated images.
- Ax Sharma
- February 16, 2022
- 06:45 AM
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Android Flash Tool Lets You Install Android Using a Browser

Google announced the release of a web-based tool that can be used by developers to install Android Open Source Project (AOSP) builds on recent Pixel phones and some Android development devices from the web browser, without building and flashing manually.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 28, 2020
- 02:10 PM
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Google Adds $1.5 Million Top Reward to Android Bug Bounty Program

Google is expanding the Android bug bounty program with new data exfiltration and lockscreen bypass categories as well as a $1 million reward for critical vulnerabilities targeting the Titan M chip.
- Lawrence Abrams
- November 21, 2019
- 12:38 PM
- 0
Actively Exploited Android Zero-Day Impacts Google, Samsung Devices

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says that a new Android zero-day is actively being exploited in the wild in attacks targeting vulnerable Google Pixel, Huawei, Xiaomi, Samsung, Oppo, and Moto devices.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 04, 2019
- 10:19 AM
- 0
July Android Security Update Fixes Four Critical RCE Flaws

Three critical remote code execution (RCE) in the Media framework and another one in the Android system were fixed by Google in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) as part of the July 2019 security patch.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 01, 2019
- 02:41 PM
- 0
Google Pushes Confidential Android Security Update to Pixel User

Google has mistakenly sent out a confidential Google-only dogfood build of their upcoming July 2019 security update to a Pixel owner. These builds are meant to be used internally by Google employees and are not meant to be pushed out to normal users.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 19, 2019
- 01:04 PM
- 0
Google Accidentally Pushed Internal November 2018 Security Update to Pixel User

Google has accidentally sent out a dogfood build for the November 2018 security patches to a Google Pixel owner. This update was pushed via OTA (over-the-air) and was discovered when the user woke up the next morning.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 12, 2018
- 01:27 PM
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