Taking on the Next Generation of Phishing Scams

Posted by Daniel Margolis, Senior Software Engineer, Google Account Security Team 

Every year, security technologies improve: browsers get better, encryption becomes ubiquitous on the Web, authentication becomes stronger. But phishing persistently remains a threat (as shown by a recent phishing attack on the U.S. Department of Labor) because users retain the ability to log into their online accounts, often with a simple password, from anywhere in the world. It’s why today at I/O we announced new ways …

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