Security News

G Suite to get Gmail confidential mode, on by default
2019-05-30 09:13

Earlier this year, Google introduced Gmail confidential mode for both consumer and G Suite users. While the former were able to use it immediately, the latter depended on whether their domain...

Google Stored Unhashed G Suite Passwords for Years
2019-05-22 16:33

Passwords Remained Encrypted for Enterprise UsersGoogle is notifying administrators and users of its business-oriented G Suite product that the company had been storing unhashed passwords for...

Google Stored G Suite Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005
2019-05-22 13:16

Google said it had stored G Suite enterprise users' passwords in plain text since 2005 marking a giant security faux pas.

Google has been storing unhashed G Suite customer passwords
2019-05-22 08:44

Google has discovered that it has been storing some G Suite users’ passwords in clear text and is notifying G Suite administrators that it will force a password change if the affected passwords...

Google Stored G Suite Users' Passwords in Plain-Text for 14 Years
2019-05-22 08:03

After Facebook and Twitter, Google becomes the latest technology giant to have accidentally stored its users' passwords unprotected in plaintext on its servers—meaning any Google employee who has...

G Suite'n'sour: Google resets passwords after storing creds unhashed for months, years
2019-05-22 00:00

Biz app login details encrypted at rest, though, ad giant insists Google admitted Tuesday its paid-for G Suite of cloudy apps aimed at businesses stored some user passwords in plaintext albeit in...

Google Warns G Suite Customers of Passwords Stored Unhashed
2019-05-21 21:15

Google on Tuesday said that some customer passwords for its G Suite customers were stored in an unhashed format. read more

Week in review: G Suite security enhancements, Microsoft 365 security
2019-04-22 06:45

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: One hundred percent of endpoint security tools eventually fail Endpoint security tools and agents fail, reliably and...

Google introduces many G Suite security enhancements
2019-04-15 11:16

Last week, the big news from Google Cloud Next 2019 was that phones running Android 7.0 or higher can be turned into a security key for G Suite account 2-step verification. But at the event Google...

Attackers are exploiting IMAP to bypass MFA on Office 365, G Suite accounts
2019-03-20 12:21

Where possible, and especially for important accounts such as Office 365 and G Suite accounts, the prevailing advice for users is to enable two-factor authentication. Unfortunately, that security...