Glass Class: Mitigating Risk before Shadow IT

 
In today’s cloud-first world, employees are sometimes trusted to manage their own projects, giving them freedom to work with the tools of their choosing to complete their tasks. Occasionally, these tools are cloud applications that organiz… Continue reading Glass Class: Mitigating Risk before Shadow IT

Bitglass Security Spotlight: G Suite User Passwords Stored in Plaintext

Here are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks:  

G Suite User Passwords Stored in Plaintext Since 2005
Contact Data of Millions of Instagram Influencers Exposed
Rogue Iframe Phishing Used to Steal Payment Card Information
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Google Stored G Suite Users’ Passwords in Plain-Text for 14 Years

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 access to the servers could have read them.

In a blog p… Continue reading Google Stored G Suite Users’ Passwords in Plain-Text for 14 Years

When Google removes malicious apps from their Play Store, are users notified? [migrated]

This Check Point Research article describes over 200 malicious apps on the Google Play Store that were downloaded over 100 million times. Google has now removed the apps from their Play Store.

But what happens to the millio… Continue reading When Google removes malicious apps from their Play Store, are users notified? [migrated]

What is Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS)?

What is Identity-as-a-Service? The term Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) has historically referred to web application single sign-on (SSO), a category of cloud-based IT solutions that is focused on extending user identities to web applications. User ident… Continue reading What is Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS)?

New Android Malware Apps Use Motion Sensor to Evade Detection

Even after so many efforts by Google for preventing its Play Store from malware, shady apps somehow managed to fool its anti-malware protections and get into its service to infect Android users with malware.

Two such Android apps have recently been sp… Continue reading New Android Malware Apps Use Motion Sensor to Evade Detection

Hack Your Gmail: A Quick Start for Google App Scripting

For many people, Gmail is synonymous with e-mail. Some people like having cloud access to everything and some people hate having any personal data in the cloud. However you feel about it, one thing that was nice about having desktop software is that you could hack it relatively easily. If you didn’t like how your desktop mail client worked, you had a lot of options: use a different program, write your own, hack the executable of your current program, or in the case of open source just fork it and make any changes you are smart enough to make.

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