Google’s Android security team appeals to security researchers

In an attempt to raise its profile among security researchers, Google’s Android mobile platform security team has improved their awareness in platform monitoring.

The team sent an email to the popular Full Disclosure mailing list, urging security researchers to help Google in detecting and disclosing inevitable flaws in the system. The team requested that Android vulnerabilities may be disclosed to Google rather than making them public.

The team wrote that it was quite difficult to build and maintain a secure mobile platform and though Google could find and fix many of its bugs and flaws in open-source projects, it was still inevitable to discover additional security issues in a complex and vast system. It further added that Google would encourage and appreciate important disclosures, since the use of Android on different devices would require more co-ordination for patching up security holes. Security researchers help in suggesting usable bugs and responsible timelines would help Google in securing ecosystem of Android devices quickly.

Numerous vulnerabilities in Android were reported back in March 2008. Vulnerabilities were tested on an Android emulator which was part of the software development kit (SDK). The developers were given the beta version of SDK on Monday. Android is yet to be deployed on any devices.

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