Gmail's One-Two Punch: Phishers Attack After Outage
Thu, Feb 26th, 2009 |
Gmail users were hit with a double whammy Tuesday.
Only hours after Google Inc. fixed a two-and-a-half hour Gmail outage , users of the hosted e-mail service 's instant messaging tool were slammed with a phishing attack. Graham Cluley , a senior technology consultant with the UK-based security firm Sophos, wrote in a blog post Wednesday that the attack spread through the Gmail's Google Talk chat system.
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