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The Wiretap: This $2.5 Billion Cyber Intel Company Defends America, Israel And Ukraine. It’s About To Be Swallowed By Mastercard.The secure messaging market has never been a hotter potato than it is right now, and Google has never really been considered one of the leading players in this space, with the likes of WhatsApp and Signal taking center stage. However, a new Google Messages security update announcement could help change the narrative. Here’s what you need to know.The Oct.
The first on the list comes by way of what Google calls enhanced detection protection. Designed to protect from the common phishing scams that plague us all, such as delivery package notifications, for example. Google is rolling this out now for beta users, which brings improved analysis of texts and either an automated moving of anything risky to your spam folder or a popup warning.
Next up comes intelligent warnings to flag up potentially dangerous links, something that has already rolled to some geographic locations and will, Google said, be expanding globally before the end of the year. Number three are controls to disable messages from unknown international senders which make it easy to automatically hide those not already in your contacts. This is rolling out to restricted locations initially, but will end up in more countries in due course.
The fourth move in this Google Messages security update comes by way of sensitive content warnings. This is, pretty much, what it says on the box: control over what images containing nudity that you might be exposed to. “Sensitive Content Warnings is an optional feature that blurs images that may contain nudity before viewing,” Google said, “and then prompts with a “speed bump” that contains help-finding resources and options, including to view the content.
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