{"id":8415,"date":"2017-07-21T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/21\/news-2189\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:10:30","slug":"news-2189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/21\/news-2189\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Protect: Android&#8217;s new security system is now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:04:56 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.android.com\/play-protect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Play Protect<\/a>, a security suite for <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/glossary\/android\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> devices, was originally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/android\/google-play-protect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced<\/a> in mid-May of this year during the Google I\/O conference.<\/p>\n<p>And in just a couple of months, the tech giant has made it available for all their mobile users.<\/p>\n<p>Play Protect is the amalgamation of Google\u2019s Android security features, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2017\/01\/findingmalware.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Verify Apps<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/googlemobile.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/02\/android-and-security.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bouncer<\/a>, and it\u2019s integrated into the Google Play Store app. As such, users don\u2019t need to look up, download, and install a separate app.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how Play Protect works:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It scans and verifies all apps in the Google Play Store before users can download them. It also periodically scans for all apps already installed on the Android device.<\/li>\n<li>For apps downloaded from third-party stores, Play Protect scans and monitors them around the clock for any change in behavior. This is handy for those apps that appear normal at first but then starts misbehaving, like inconspicuously downloading malicious components. If a potentially harmful app is detected, Play Protect does two things: (1) disables it or (2) issues a warning to users about it.<\/li>\n<li>It implements an anti-theft feature called <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/android\/answer\/6160491?hl=en-GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find My Device<\/a> (formerly Android Device Manager). If the device\u2014phone, tablet, or smartwatch\u2014cannot be claimed back, this also allows the owner to lock it or wipe data stored in it.<\/li>\n<li>Its <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/safe-browsing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safe Browsing<\/a> feature stops users from landing into dubious destinations when browsing the Web via Chrome.<\/li>\n<li>It constantly auto-updates so users don\u2019t have to do it manually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The system behind Play Protect uses machine learning to enable itself to continuously improve in protecting Android users.<\/p>\n<p><iframe  src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FMSwhXjEIao?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Users can access and customize the settings of Play Protect by going to <em>Settings&gt;Google&gt;Security&gt;Verify Apps<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe, everyone!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Malwarebytes Labs<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/07\/play-protect-androids-new-security-system-is-now-available\/\">Play Protect: Android&#8217;s new security system is now available<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/07\/play-protect-androids-new-security-system-is-now-available\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:04:56 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellpadding='10'>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='center'><a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/07\/play-protect-androids-new-security-system-is-now-available\/' title='Play Protect: Android's new security system is now available'><img src='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/google-play-protect.png' border='0'  width='300px'  \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='left'>Google Play Protect has just rolled out to Android user devices, further beefing up their security.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/security-world\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Security world<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/security-world\/technology\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Technology<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/android\/\" rel=\"tag\">Android<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/google\/\" rel=\"tag\">Google<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/malware-scanner\/\" rel=\"tag\">malware scanner<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/mobile-malware\/\" rel=\"tag\">mobile malware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/play-protect\/\" rel=\"tag\">play protect<\/a><\/p>\n<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td align=right>\n<p><b>(<a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/07\/play-protect-androids-new-security-system-is-now-available\/' title='Play Protect: Android's new security system is now available'>Read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/07\/play-protect-androids-new-security-system-is-now-available\/\">Play Protect: Android&#8217;s new security system is now available<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[10462,1670,13132,11255,13133,10497,1331],"class_list":["post-8415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-android","tag-google","tag-malware-scanner","tag-mobile-malware","tag-play-protect","tag-security-world","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}