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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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.
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.
Google stored some passwords in plain text 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Google adds SSO verification check to G Suite
G Suite users logging in using Chrome via SAML single sign-on (SSO) providers will start seeing a new prompt the first time they log in.
Gmail’s new ‘Confidential Mode’ won’t be completely private
Have you ever wished it were possible to delete an email from a recipient’s inbox days, weeks or months after it was sent? If so and you’re a Gmail or G Suite user, it looks as if Google might be about to enable this kind of ‘self-destructing’ email feature on its platform.