Tuesday, March 29, 2016

New alerts for Gmail users targeted by state-sponsored attackers

Since 2012, Google has been warning Gmail users when they have been targeted by state-sponsored attackers, but now the alert will be even more visible (and therefore less likely to be overlooked or ignored): The new full-page warning says that Google can’t say how they know that the user’s account is being targeted by government-backed hackers, and urges the user to enable two-factor authentication and set up a Security Key on his or her account. … More
from Help Net Security http://ift.tt/1MPUtlN

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