Modern smartphone operating systems have myriad systems in place to improve security, but none of that helps when attackers target the modem. Googles Project Zero team has shown its possible to get remote code execution on Pixel phone modems over the Internet, which prompted Google to reevaluate how it secures this vital, low level system. The solution wasnt to rewrite modem software but rather to shoehorn a safer Rust based component into the Pixel 10 modem. Cellular modems are something of a...
