Google to make Internet safer with Project Zero

Google’s vision includes a safe Internet environment, where you can browse and enter any website you wish without fearing getting a virus, without cyber-attacks, etc. and removing as a whole all dangerous things from the Web.

This is supposed to be achieved with Google’s newest project, Project Zero. Project Zero will be a special team composed of Internet security research, which will hunt down and report any exploits they can find.

Here’s the official statement by Google:

You should be able to use the web without fear that a criminal or state-sponsored actor is exploiting software bugs to infect your computer, steal secrets or monitor your communications. Yet in sophisticated attacks, we see the use of “zero-day” vulnerabilities to target, for example, human rights activists or to conduct industrial espionage. This needs to stop. We think more can be done to tackle this problem.

Project Zero is our contribution, to start the ball rolling. Our objective is to significantly reduce the number of people harmed by targeted attacks. We’re hiring the best practically-minded security researchers and contributing 100% of their time toward improving security across the Internet.

Google will be investing large amounts of money into the project. Any exploits they find will be analyzed in order to learn the techniques behind it, and will work with the Internet vendors to remove whatever they classify as dangerous.

Read more about Project Zero here.