Tag: Gmail
Put a pin in this one
September 3, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
I feel like it’s been forever and a day since we talked about a major data breach on this blog, which is not to say they haven’t been happening, they just haven’t come up.
If ever there was a time to revisit this topic, however, it would be the news of an alleged Google data breach, or lack thereof? Jury’s still out on that one. To be completely clear there were some voice-phishing campaigns perpetrated by hacker collective ShinyHunters in June of this year which managed...
Google gets tough on security
April 3, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google recently began enforcing security changes to Gmail that are designed to protect users, foil phishing attempts and reduce unwanted spam by targeting bulk email senders – a welcome development for the industry.
Security measures designed to protect vulnerable users from targeted attacks align with the priorities of industry data privacy experts.
“It's more than just the sort of bad actors that might be attempting to use that,”...