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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November 20, 2019

XSS security hole in Gmail’s dynamic email

The bug was fixed at least a month ago so users receiving dynamic email content have one less thing to worry about.

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October 02, 2019

Ex-Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to hacking 6,000 accounts

Reyes Daniel Ruiz went after younger women's accounts, including those of his personal friends and work colleagues, he admitted.

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June 03, 2019

All G Suite users to get Gmail ‘confidential’ mode

Google announced that on 25 June 2019, Gmail's confidential mode will be switched on by default as the feature becomes generally available.

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May 22, 2019

Hackers for hire – the good, the bad and the just-plain-scammers

Google & UC San Diego researchers found that only 5 of 27 hacker-for-hire services actually launched attacks against their targets.

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January 11, 2019

2FA codes can be phished by new pentest tool

A researcher has published a tool called Modlishka, capable of phishing 2FA codes sent by SMS or authentication apps.

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December 21, 2018

More phishing attacks on Yahoo and Gmail SMS 2FA

The second report in a week has analysed phishing attacks that are attempting – and probably succeeding – in bypassing older forms of two-factor authentication (2FA).

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December 18, 2018

Sneaky phishing campaign beats two-factor authentication

Protecting an account with multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a no-brainer, but that doesn’t mean every method for doing this is equally secure.

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September 24, 2018

App developers are STILL allowed to read your Gmails

Google is still allowing third-party developers access to access its users’ Gmail data, it said in a letter to Senators last week.

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