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05-04-2017, 02:14 PM
Gmail app for Android **w blocks phishing attacks
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Google has added an anti-phishing security check on its Gmail app for Android, the company an**unced Wednesday.*
From **w on, the Gmail app will give you an additional warning when you click on a suspicious link in an email.*
SEE ALSO: Surprise! U.S. Senate email lacks the most basic of security features. (http://mashable.com/2017/04/27/us-senate-email-security-2fa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
"The site you are trying to visit has been identified as a forgery, intended to trick you into disclosing financial, personal or other sensitive information," the text of the warning (https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/05/making-email-safer-with-Gmail-click-time-security-checks.html) says, along with the option to continue to the link at your own peril, and report an incorrect warning.*
The new feature, which will be gradually rolled out to all Gmail users over the next days, comes shortly after a widespread phishing attack (http://mashable.com/2017/05/03/phishing-gmail-google-docs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) that impersonated Google services hit a large number of users.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/gmail-phishing-block/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Google has added an anti-phishing security check on its Gmail app for Android, the company an**unced Wednesday.*
From **w on, the Gmail app will give you an additional warning when you click on a suspicious link in an email.*
SEE ALSO: Surprise! U.S. Senate email lacks the most basic of security features. (http://mashable.com/2017/04/27/us-senate-email-security-2fa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
"The site you are trying to visit has been identified as a forgery, intended to trick you into disclosing financial, personal or other sensitive information," the text of the warning (https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/05/making-email-safer-with-Gmail-click-time-security-checks.html) says, along with the option to continue to the link at your own peril, and report an incorrect warning.*
The new feature, which will be gradually rolled out to all Gmail users over the next days, comes shortly after a widespread phishing attack (http://mashable.com/2017/05/03/phishing-gmail-google-docs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) that impersonated Google services hit a large number of users.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/gmail-phishing-block/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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