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August 2017
Google
has rolled out its anti-phishing mechanisms for the Gmail app for iPhone users
that will warn you about potential phishing attacks when you click on a shady
link.
Google
said the new feature will take nearly two weeks before it is available
everywhere.
According
to a statement, Google said that if you click on a link that Google thinks
could be suspicious, you'll see a warning asking if you're "sure you want
to proceed".
The
feature in the app, that the company added to Gmail's Android app back in May,
will also warn when clicking on a link Google knows to be malicious.
A
warning, "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", will be displayed after a user clicks on a shady
link. The Total Investment & Insurance
Solutions
Google
is applying their machine-learning expertise to the problem of recognizing
suspicious email. The Total Investment
& Insurance Solutions
"An
early phishing detection algorithm identifies email that has phishing
characteristics. The email is flagged and subjected to further analysis
including a Safe Browsing test that can delay delivery by up to four
minutes," Forbes reported.
Google
claims that 50 per cent to 70 per cent of the emails that pass through Gmail
are spam and that their detection system achieves a 99.9 per cent accuracy
score.
Phishing
is a fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable
companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such
as passwords and credit card numbers. The Total
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According
to Forbes, it is estimated that 85 per cent of companies were hit with phishing
attacks in 2016, 90 per cent of phishing attacks contained ransomware and the
average cost of a phishing attack was $1.6 million. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
"Humans
are the weakest link in cybersecurity, and phishing is the biggest attack
vector. Over 60 per cent of email is now opened on the mobile, and this move by
Google will help save a lot of debacles," Ankush Johar, Director at
HumanFirewall.io, a leading provider of human information security awareness
and preparedness solutions, said.
"Incidentally,
a lot of the recent issues involving large cons and heists of money have been
attributed to phishing, including the $100-million Facebook and Google con in
April 2017," he added. The Total
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The
report in Forbes claims that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) hack that
roiled the 2016 US presidential election was a phishing attack.The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
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