<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="esc-lead-article-title-wrapper" style="margin: 0px 32px 1px 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="esc-lead-article-title" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><a target="_blank" class="article did-3977407387329797839 sig2-N3ja_0C8FeTPHhbVL2Ew8A usg-AFQjCNGNS3H8OvbTJMLxz1D75fxbQRgQMA" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/03/massive-google-gmail-phish-many-victims/" url="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/03/massive-google-gmail-phish-many-victims/" id="MAA4AEgEUABgAWoCdXM" ssid="h" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none;">A Massive Google Docs Phish Might Have Stolen A Load Of Gmail Accounts - UPDATED</a></h2></div><div class="esc-lead-article-source-wrapper" style="margin: 2px 32px 2px 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table class="single-line-height al-attribution" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="line-height: 13px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="al-attribution-cell source-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 0px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="al-attribution-source" style="font-size: 14px;">Forbes</span></td><td class="al-attribution-cell timestamp-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="dash-separator" style="line-height: 13px;"> - </span><span class="al-attribution-timestamp">3 hours ago</span></span></td><td class="sharebar-cell al-attribution-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 6px;"><table id="52779481644215-sharebar" class="yesscript share-bar-table" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="line-height: 0; table-layout: fixed; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-left: 8px;"><tbody class=""><tr class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><td class="sharebox-cell share-bar-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 0px 1px; cursor: pointer; width: 17px; height: 16px; visibility: visible;"><div class="share-button-wrapper" buttontype="share" sharetype="s-gplus" title="Share on Google+" id=":73"><div class="share-button-state"></div></div></td><td class="share-bar-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 0px 1px; cursor: pointer; width: 17px; height: 16px; visibility: hidden;"><div class="share-button-wrapper" buttontype="share" sharetype="s-twitter" title="Share on Twitter" id=":74"><div class="share-button-state"><div class="icon-fc share-icon-twitter share-button" style="width: 21px; height: 14px; float: left; background-image: url(https://ssl.gstatic.com/news-static/img/938363682-news-icons-fc_w.png); opacity: 0.4; background-position: -16px -1px;"></div></div></div></td><td class="share-bar-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 0px 1px; cursor: pointer; width: 17px; height: 16px; visibility: hidden;"><div class="share-button-wrapper" buttontype="share" sharetype="s-fb" title="Share on Facebook" id=":75"><div class="share-button-state"><div class="share-icon-facebook2 icon share-button" style="width: 16px; height: 14px; background-image: url(https://ssl.gstatic.com/news-static/img/3020985784-news-icons_w.png); opacity: 0.4; background-position: -258px -33px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></div></div></div></td><td class="share-bar-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 0px 1px; cursor: pointer; width: 17px; height: 16px; visibility: hidden;"><div class="share-button-wrapper" buttontype="share" sharetype="s-email" title="Share via Email" id=":76"><div class="share-button-state"><div class="email-icon2 icon share-button" style="width: 17px; height: 12px; background-image: url(https://ssl.gstatic.com/news-static/img/3020985784-news-icons_w.png); opacity: 0.4; background-position: -258px -63px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><a target="_blank" class="mailto-share-link" style="display: inline-block; width: 17px; height: 12px;"></a></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A lot of people are getting some suspicious looking emails in their Gmail today. The malicious messages are coming from trusted contacts, asking them to open a Google Doc.</div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/03/massive-google-gmail-phish-many-victims/#56ab0b7842a1" class="">https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/03/massive-google-gmail-phish-many-victims/#56ab0b7842a1</a></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="card-section _hnc" style="display: inline-block; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a class="_sQb" href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/gmail-google-hack-phishing-attack.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer;">Massive phishing attack targets millions of <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Gmail</span> users</a><br class=""><span class="f _tQb _IId nsa" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33);">CNBC</span><span class="_v5" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); padding: 0px 4px;">-</span><span class="nsa _uQb f" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); display: inline-block;">6 hours ago</span></div></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="card-section _hnc" style="display: inline-block; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span class="nsa _uQb f" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); display: inline-block;"><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/gmail-google-hack-phishing-attack.html" class="">http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/gmail-google-hack-phishing-attack.html</a></span></div></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="card-section _hnc" style="display: inline-block; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br class=""></div></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="card-section _hnc" style="display: inline-block; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm 4r', Arial; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">An unusually sophisticated identity phishing campaign appeared to target Google's roughly 1 billion Gmail users worldwide, seeking to gain control of their entire email histories and spread itself to all of their contacts, Google confirmed Wednesday.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm 4r', Arial; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">[If you clicked the link, <a class="inline_asset" href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/what-to-do-if-you-opened-the-google-doc-phishing-email.html" title="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/what-to-do-if-you-opened-the-google-doc-phishing-email.html" target="_self" style="color: rgb(32, 119, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm 5r';">here's what to do next</a>.]</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm 4r', Arial; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">The worm — which arrived in users' inboxes posing as an email from a trusted contact — asked users to check out an attached "Google Docs," or GDocs, file. Clicking on the link took them to a real Google security page, where users were asked to give permission for the fake app, posing as GDocs, to manage users' email account.</p><div id="inline_movable_ad" style="color: rgb(66, 72, 88); font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm 4r', Arial; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm 4r', Arial; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">To make matters worse, the worm also sent itself out to all of the affected users' contacts — Gmail or otherwise — reproducing itself hundreds of times any time a single user fell for it.</p></div></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#666666" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="_Vmc" style="margin-bottom: 2px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal;"></div><div class="card-section _hnc" style="display: inline-block; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a class="_sQb" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/gmail-scam-hits-1-million-people/525357/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer;">Up to 1 Million <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Gmail</span> Users Affected in Massive Phishing Attack</a><br class=""><span class="f _tQb _IId nsa" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33);">The Atlantic</span><span class="_v5" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); padding: 0px 4px;">-</span><span class="nsa _uQb f" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); display: inline-block;">1 hour ago</span></div></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="card-section _hnc" style="display: inline-block; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span class="nsa _uQb f" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/gmail-scam-hits-1-million-people/525357/" class="">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/gmail-scam-hits-1-million-people/525357/</a></span></div></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#666666" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="_Vmc" style="margin-bottom: 2px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal;"></div><div class="card-section _hnc" style="display: inline-block; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a class="_sQb" href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-gives-android-gmail-users-new-shady-link-warnings-amid-fake-docs-attack/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer;">Google gives Android <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Gmail</span> users new shady link warnings amid ...</a><br class=""><span class="f _tQb _IId nsa" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33);">ZDNet</span><span class="_v5" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); padding: 0px 4px;">-</span><span class="nsa _uQb f" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); display: inline-block;">1 hour ago</span></div></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#666666" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="_Vmc" style="margin-bottom: 2px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal;"></div><div class="card-section _hnc" style="display: inline-block; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a class="_sQb" href="http://www.kwch.com/content/news/GMail-appears-to-have-been-hacked-421195873.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer;">Phishing scam targets <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">GMail</span> users</a><br class=""><span class="f _tQb _IId nsa" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33);">KWCH</span><span class="_v5" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); padding: 0px 4px;">-</span><span class="nsa _uQb f" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); display: inline-block;">10 hours ago</span></div></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">"A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps. The term refers to situations in society that contain traps formally like a fish trap, </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see no </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">easy way to back out of or to avoid."<br class=""><br class="">John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">———————————————————</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">“Booms have consequences.”</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Grant, James. Money of the Mind : Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1992</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">—————————————————————————----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">“It is no coincidence that the deepest and most protracted recessions in recent decades have taken hold in countries that experienced booms …” </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The Economist, July, 2001 </div></div></div></div>
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