{"id":220304,"date":"2017-07-19T08:37:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T06:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=220304"},"modified":"2017-07-19T08:37:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T06:37:41","slug":"google-adds-features-to-warn-against-unverified-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/220304-google-adds-features-to-warn-against-unverified-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"Google adds features to warn against unverified apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gsuite-developers.googleblog.com\/2017\/07\/new-security-protections-to-reduce-risk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google is increasing its protection<\/strong><\/a> against potentially malicious apps by rolling out an \u201cunverified app\u201d screen for newly-created web applications and Apps Scripts that require verification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the coming months, we will begin expanding the verification process and the new warnings to existing apps as well,\u201d Google said.<\/p>\n<p>The unverified app screen which is rolled out by Google will replace the error page that developers and users of unverified web apps receive today.<\/p>\n<p>It will feature bolder warnings to inform users about newly-created web apps and Apps Scripts that are pending verification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unverified app screen precedes the permissions consent screen for the app and lets potential users know that the app has yet to be verified,\u201d Google said.<\/p>\n<p>Google explained that this will help reduce the risk of user data being phished by bad actors.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/219750-how-google-has-failed-south-african-android-developers.html\">How Google has failed South African Android developers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is rolling out an \u201cunverified app\u201d screen for newly created web applications and Apps Scripts that require verification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":220308,"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":[16],"tags":[397,4036,167],"class_list":["post-220304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-apps","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220304"}],"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=220304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220336,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220304\/revisions\/220336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}