{"id":257905,"date":"2018-04-27T07:53:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T05:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=257905"},"modified":"2018-04-27T07:54:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T05:54:26","slug":"google-making-third-party-logins-more-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/257905-google-making-third-party-logins-more-secure.html","title":{"rendered":"Google making third-party logins more secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is rolling out a <a href=\"https:\/\/gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com\/2018\/04\/more-secure-sign-in-chrome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>new sign-in feature<\/strong><\/a> for account holders who use\u00a0Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) single sign-on functionality.<\/p>\n<p>This will not\u00a0impact anyone who signs into Google services directly, or who use G Suite or Cloud Identity as their identity provider.<\/p>\n<p>The new security screen below is also not shown on devices running Chrome OS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting on May 7, 2018, after signing in on an SAML provider&#8217;s website, they\u2019ll be brought to a new screen on accounts.google.com to confirm their identity,&#8221; said\u00a0 Google.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This screen will provide an additional layer of security and help prevent users from unknowingly signing in to an account created and controlled by an attacker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The feature will only be shown once per account per device.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the new feature is intended to prevent attackers from tricking a user\u00a0into clicking a link that would sign them in to a Google Account the attacker controls.<\/p>\n<p>A phishing attack could currently do this via SAML single sign-on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To protect Chrome users, we\u2019ve added this extra protection,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SAML-Sign-In.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-257911\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SAML-Sign-In-387x430.png\" alt=\"SAML Sign-In\" width=\"387\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SAML-Sign-In-387x430.png 387w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SAML-Sign-In-360x400.png 360w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SAML-Sign-In-768x854.png 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SAML-Sign-In.png 936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/257715-google-to-shut-down-play-music-for-youtube-remix-report.html\">Google to shut down Play Music for YouTube Remix \u2014 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is rolling out a new sign-in feature for account holders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[167,50373,50375],"class_list":["post-257905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-google","tag-security-assertion-markup-language-saml","tag-single-sign-on-sso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257905"}],"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=257905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257929,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257905\/revisions\/257929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}