Google warns journalists and professors: Your account is under attack
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/11/google-warns-journalists-and-professors-your-account-is-under-attack/
Google is warning prominent journalists and professors that
nation-sponsored hackers have recently targeted their
accounts, according to reports delivered in the past 24 hours
over social media. The people reportedly receiving the
warnings include Nobel-winning economist and New York Times
columnist Paul Krugman, Stanford University professor and
former US diplomat Michael McFaul, GQ correspondent Keith
Olbermann, and according to this tweet, Politico, Highline,
and Foreign Policy contributor/columnist Julia Ioffe; New York
Magazine reporter Jonathan Chait; and Atlantic magazine writer
Jon Lovett. Reports of others receiving the warnings are here
and here. Many of the reports included banners that Google
displayed when account holders logged in. Ars spoke to someone
who works for a well-known security company who also produced
an image of a warning he received. The person said he was
aware of a fellow security-industry professional receiving the
same warning.
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fall into the trap of using the latter. It's just plain wrong!
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