July 11, 2014

Don’t freak out over Google Drive security (yet)

Jerome Segura, senior security researcher for Malwarebytes, noted that while Google fixed the problem promptly, there remained the issue of “security through obscurity.” In Segura’s words: “[Access to private links for Google Drive documents] exists to anyone who has or guesses the link. Much better protection would be to send a link that requires user authentication on top of being a private link.”

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