Google’s latest Android tools will protect you from a wider range of scams

Chrome for Android could be getting a major time-saving upgrade to make verification even easier

Google Chrome on Android devices could get support for automatic detection and auto-filling for two-factor codes.

Google rolls out new security updates for Android to combat text scams and identity theft. Here’s what they do and how it works

In a Google Security Blog post posted Tuesday, the company announced a number of security updates including advanced text scam detection, phone scam protections, and a new identity verification tool, among others.

Android mobiles will be much safer with the latest updates from Google: scammers will have much harder access to them.

How Android 16 will fight scams for you

This week, Google announced a host of new tools included in Android 16 aimed at protecting users from scams. The tech giant detailed the new features at its Android I/O presentation on Tuesday, which Mashable covered in detail. Android 16's protections seem to focus on the common scams we're seeing more and more — things like fake EZ-Pass bills and scammers posing as real banks. Here's what's new in Android 16's security tools. Protection agains…

Google's Android 16 Takes Aim at Phone and Text Scams

Google yanked the wraps off plans to imbue Android 16, the upcoming release of the mobile operating system slated for a June release, with a slew of guardrails and protections to frustrate common phone- and text-based scams. What strikes me as most interesting is that these protections are aimed at safeguarding users against social engineering, in which a scammer uses not hacking skills to access what they shouldn’t, but rather a manipulative se…

Google’s Advanced Protection for Vulnerable Users Comes to Android

A new extra-secure mode for Android 16 will let at-risk users lock their devices down.