March 10, 2020

Watch out for Office 365 and G Suite scams, FBI warns businesses

The FBI has warned users of Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite hosted email about Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams.

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February 25, 2020

Google denies illegally slurping data off free student Chromebooks

Nonsense! says Google in response to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico's AG, which accuses Google of violating COPPA's child privacy laws.

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December 18, 2019

Google to choke off ‘less secure applications’

If you're entering a username and password to give an app access to a G Suite account, beware: you won't be able to do it for much longer.

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May 23, 2019

Google stored some passwords in plaintext for 14 years

Nobody got at the subset of G Suite passwords, Google said, apologizing and saying that it's working to ensure this is an isolated incident.

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March 18, 2019

G Suite admins can now disallow SMS and voice authentication

Users of G Suite may find that the option to authenticate themselves via SMS or voice call has suddenly disappeared.

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November 15, 2018

Official Google Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam

The epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile accounts.

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October 11, 2018

Sophos Mobile gets in sync with Google Cloud Identity

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October 09, 2018

Google ramps up G Suite protections against government-backed attacks

Security alerts become opt-out by default from 10 October because so few admins opted in.

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August 09, 2018

Google to warn companies targeted in government-backed attacks

G Suite admins will have the option of enabling alerts if Google suspects government-backed hacking attempts.

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