Alerts sent to Workspace Admins regarding Updates. Does your business utilize Google Workspace? If so, the company recently issued an alert for Workspace admins. The alert warns that a planned update designed to improve security relating to Google Drive link sharing could cause some of the links to break, which in turn could overwhelm your … [Read more...] about Alerts Sent to Workspace Admins regarding Updates
Google Analytics Gets New Security Feature
Google Analytics Gets New Security Feature, and based on current trends, marketers will have to get used to operating in a world without cookies. In light of that, Google has recently made some significant changes to Google Analytics designed to help marketers live and ultimately thrive in that world. In October 2020, Google rolled out the first … [Read more...] about Google Analytics Gets New Security Feature
Google Updates Play Store Privacy And Safety
Google Updates Play Store Privacy And Safety. Google generally does a great job with security when it comes to the Google Play Store. Of course, Google regularly makes headlines with discoveries of poisoned apps, but given the sheer number of apps available on the Play Store, the percentage of problematic ones is barely a blip on the radar. That … [Read more...] about Google Updates Play Store Privacy And Safety
Google May Force All Users To Use 2 Factor Authentication
Google May Force All Users To Use 2 Factor Authentication. Sometimes Google takes a heavy-hand approach to security, but their heart is in the right place. That seems to be the case with the company's most recent announcement. Soon, Google will start force Gmail and Google account holders to use two-factor authentication (2FA) by automatically … [Read more...] about Google May Force All Users To Use 2 Factor Authentication
Chrome 90 Increases Security
Chrome 90 Increases Security when in February, Google began experimenting with a new feature that defaulted all URLs to use "https:" rather than the less secure "http:." While defaulting to the secure socket layer isn't ironclad protection for 'netizins, it's certainly a step in the right direction, which is why Google is promoting the change … [Read more...] about Chrome 90 Increases Security
Hackers Using Google “Contact Us” To Infect Systems
Hackers Using Google "Contact Us" To Infect Systems and the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team recently issued a dire warning that every IT professional should take it seriously. The Threat Team discovered an emerging threat in the form of hackers utilizing legitimate "Contact Us" forms associated with Google websites to distribute … [Read more...] about Hackers Using Google “Contact Us” To Infect Systems
