Google is going to add an extra security step for logging into Web sites from your desktop computer. On your Android device, you’ll be asked whether you really want to log on to a secure page. In addition, Android L standard will encrypt all data.
Google Play services update
Last week, Google began rolling out an update for Google Play services. Play services is a set of new features for developers new possibilities for users and security updates. This package ensures that users will still have access to many new features and better protected against malware., Without an immediate update of the smartphone manufacturer
This week’s update includes not only new opportunities for developers and small design updates for Google Play Games, but also a lot of hidden features that have not yet been announced. As we are accustomed, Android Police has also this time the installation package for Play services sifted in search of hidden features. This time there were a lot still to be found in the package. Unannounced new features As long as they have not yet been made officially available, they can be “retrieved” by Google, but it seems that we are overwhelmingly going to see on our Android device.
it back in time We take discovered new possibilities in the field of security, where we also found, with you by.
Login to desktop via smartphone (AuthZen)
Google offers some interesting things themselves users with the ability to use it. two-step authentication, When someone with bad intentions behind your password is come, he still can not just log in to your Google account. We still need a second step, he must have either a backup code your phone. Currently, you can use your phone in two ways for two-step authentication: either through an additional security code to be sent by text message or by using the Google Authenticator app to your phone.
The new information that Android Police from the installation of Google Play services has managed to pick up we can see that Google’s move to Play services. Possibilities of Authenticator This would enable all devices with Android 2.2 and higher can be automatically as an authentication platform.
From some screenshots (shown below), which we found in a presentation by a Google employee uses we see this in his works. Logging in via a website with your Google account, can then by a confirmation will appear on your Android device. Incidentally, in the same presentation indicated that if no Android device is available, the extra security step also can do. Using a sms In the presentation referred Password + the possibility, but it also refers to the name AuthZen.
Not only the login is done via your Android device: you’ll be using the new features discovered by Android Police include a get notified when someone tries to reset. your Google password
AuthZen it will appear at, among others in the bugtracker of Google Chrome. From that page, we can conclude that the new login features to be tested, which is called dogfooding. Google employees currently There appears to be able to join a (rare) problem and on that page is a temporary solution put forward. This workaround must be resolved according to the same page in the future and before ‘Nacho’ suits. With Nacho is probably the N-release of Android meant not next year will appear. For fall
Unlock trusted device
It was already known that it is possible to switch when a familiar Android device is nearby. From the login screen of Chrome OS That means that log on a Chrome OS laptop or computer is not necessary if your phone is in your pocket. It will in future be possible to skip when a trusted device is nearby. Automatically unlock screen of your phone
It could be a smart watch: When your smart watch is near: we can reasonably conclude that you are too close, creating a secure unlock screen may not be necessary. Besides trusted Bluetooth devices when smartwaches, can therefore be chosen, for example, skip the lock screen when the Bluetooth system in your car in the neighborhood, or when an NFC tag is touched. Perhaps the most interesting feature is that it is also possible, when this function is actually enabled to specify where the unlock screen is not displayed. Familiar places by Google Think of your home or work location. Incidentally, such functionality is already available through the app Skiplock but when the feature is rolled through Play services, this standard could work on Android 2.2 and higher.
Encryption
Apple released iOS 8 from last week and that was Apple CEO Tim Cook reason to once again to show how much safer iOS eight now, including the new ‘full disk encryption’ function. In response, Google shows that L also on Android from Android completely encrypt all files will be default.
From Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) Android includes the ability to encrypt all files. This means that data and files can only be read when the correct password is entered. Although Android has that feature so many years, it was somewhat hidden: this option is only available in the security settings to find somewhere where most users will not look back. In addition, taking the set this function when you have got a lot of apps installed very long time: after all, the entire system must be encrypted
This type of encryption (or encryption) improves privacy for the user. : when a device falls into the hands of others, photographs, or other sensitive data can not easily be traced. Also, the users’ privacy since the leaks about the conduct of the NSA in and outside the United States under discussion. In an article in the Washington Post Niki Christoff gives Google the following:
Android offers encryption for more than three years, and the keys are not stored outside the unit. As a result, they can not be shared with law enforcement. As part of the next Android release encryption will be enabled by default. As a result, you do not have to think about how to enable this option
Source:. Washington Post, Android Police
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