The upstream Linux kernel project recently ended its six-year support lifetime commitment for LTS releases, which would’ve been bad for the security of Android devices, so Google had to step up.

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 ...

Samsung's attempt to prevent attacks on Galaxy phones by modifying kernel code ... hardware access to Android's Linux kernel, vendors would be better off using security features that already ...

It seems like Google is working hard to update and upstream the Linux kernel ... older versions of Android with security patches means the company is still supporting kernel 3.18, which is five ...

The Linux Foundation's Greg Kroah-Hartman delivered a comprehensive talk this week on the current state and future challenges of Linux kernel security ... the Google Android security team ...

Google is stepping in to extend Android's LTS kernel support to six years for enhanced security. Previously, LTS kernels were being maintained for six years by Linux contributors, but now only get ...

With the USA’s National Security Agency ... Now it emerges that the NSA has code running in both the Linux Kernel and in Android. Though this isn’t anything new, as it has been known since ...

A security researcher has discovered a security flaw in the Linux kernel using the OpenAI o3 reasoning model. An official ...

Linux Kernel 6.16 RC1 is released with remarkable performance enhancements, extensive hardware support, and enhanced security ...

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 ...