Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Jan. 17, 2025: This story, originally published Jan.

Hackers called ShinyHunters broke into a major Google database in June by tricking a Google employee into giving login details. The database was managed through Salesforce’s cloud platform, which ...

This devastating Gmail attack locks users out of their accounts with no comeback. Updated December 7 with more information regarding managing a Google Account with Family Link, the parental safety ...

In the nascent field of AI hacking, indirect prompt injection has become a basic building block for inducing chatbots to exfiltrate sensitive data or perform other malicious actions. Developers of ...

Google on Monday denied reports that 2.5 billion Gmail users had been impacted by a hack, saying claims that it issued a warning about a major security issue are “entirely false.” Reports emerged last ...