Hemant Singh – Mumbai Uncensored, 4th May 2022
Google has revealed that several of its cloud-based productivity suite’s services would receive an essential feature that is currently present in Google Drive. Users will now see warning labels on files shared on Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. The tech behemoth revised its blog post to highlight the new service feature. These warning labels will alert users to potentially harmful material.
This security feature for Google Drive will be available in 2021, according to the firm. In a blog post, Google acknowledged the Drive security banner and stated that it was “expanding these warnings at the file level.”
The new feature, like Drive, would display a yellow warning flag at the top of a document whenever a user attempts to view potentially hazardous documents on their machine. On Google’s collaborative tools, a warning banner will also appear: “This file appears to be suspect. It has the potential to be utilised to steal your personal information.”
These warning labels are intended to assist users in avoiding dubious files that appear to be valid documents. However, same warning flags were previously displayed on the productivity apps. These advertisements previously displayed only when users attempted to access URLs from within Google Workspace.
Google has verified that this functionality will be activated by default and that there will be no admin or end-user control over it. The business also stated that the updated warning labels will be available in a few weeks. All Google Workspace customers, including those with old G Suite Basic and Business subscriptions, will be able to access the service.
As more people choose for a remote work environment, online productivity solutions are becoming increasingly popular. Google has to beef up the security of its other productivity products since the Workspace has recently been a popular venue for attackers to disseminate malicious files and launch phishing attacks.
A cloud email and collaboration suite security company discovered a “huge surge of hackers using the comment function in Google Docs” to propagate malware and phishing assaults last year.
