{"id":209686,"date":"2017-05-08T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=209686"},"modified":"2017-05-08T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T05:50:09","slug":"how-google-protects-you-against-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/209686-how-google-protects-you-against-phishing.html","title":{"rendered":"How Google protects you against phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many email users have been targets of phishing attacks, where their personal information was targeted by cybercriminals.<\/p>\n<p>Google works\u00a0to protect Gmail users against phishing attacks, and has explained how its systems work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day, millions of phishing emails are blocked from reaching your inbox,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe protect our users from phishing attacks in a number of ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using machine learning-based detection of spam and phishing messages, which has contributed to 99.9% accuracy in spam detection.<\/li>\n<li>Providing Safe Browsing warnings about dangerous links, within Gmail and across more than 2 billion browsers.<\/li>\n<li>Preventing suspicious account sign-ins through dynamic, risk-based challenges.<\/li>\n<li>Scanning email attachments for malware and other dangerous payloads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, we\u2019re taking multiple steps to combat this type of attack in the future,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>This includes updating its policies and enforcement on OAuth applications, updating its anti-spam systems to prevent phishing campaigns, and augmenting monitoring of suspicious third-party apps that request information from users.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/209298-android-gmail-app-makes-email-safer.html\">Android Gmail app makes email safer<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has explained how it protects Gmail users against phishing attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[407,167],"class_list":["post-209686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-gmail","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209698,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209686\/revisions\/209698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}