Latest Google Drive news

Android game dev’s Google Drive misconfig highlights cloud security risks

Japanese game developer Ateam has proven that a simple Google Drive configuration mistake can result in the potential but unlikely exposure of sensitive information for nearly one million people over a period of six years and eight months.
- Bill Toulas
- December 31, 2023
- 10:09 AM
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Google shares “fix” for deleted Google Drive files

Google says it identified and fixed a bug causing customer files added to Google Drive after April-May 2023 to disappear. However, the fix isn't working for all affected users.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 08, 2023
- 03:36 PM
- 1
Google Drive users angry over losing months of stored data

Google Drive users are reporting that recent files stored in the cloud have suddenly disappeared, with the cloud service reverting to a storage snapshot as it was around April-May 2023.
- Bill Toulas
- November 27, 2023
- 09:52 AM
- 11
Google will delete accounts inactive for more than 2 years

Google has updated its policy for personal accounts across its services to allow a maximum period of inactivity of two years.
- Bill Toulas
- May 21, 2023
- 11:07 AM
- 2
Google blocks site of largest computing society for being ‘harmful’

Google Search and Drive are erroneously flagging links to Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) research papers and websites as malware. BleepingComputer has successfully reproduced the issue, first reported by researcher Maximilian Golla.
- Ax Sharma
- July 21, 2022
- 10:44 AM
- 1
Russian SVR hackers use Google Drive, Dropbox to evade detection

State-backed hackers part of Russia's Federation Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) have switched, for the first time, to using legitimate cloud storage services such as Google Drive to evade detection.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 19, 2022
- 08:35 AM
- 0
Google Docs crashes on seeing "And. And. And. And. And."

A bug in Google Docs is causing it to crash when a series of words are typed into a document opened with the online word processor. BleepingComputer was able to reproduce the issue last night and reached out to Google.
- Ax Sharma
- May 06, 2022
- 02:06 AM
- 0
Google Drive flags macOS '.DS_Store' files for copyright violation

Google Drive was seen flagging '.DS_Store' files generated by macOS file systems as a violation of its copyright infringement policy. '.DS_Store' is a metadata file commonly seen by Apple users when they transfer their folders and archives from a macOS to a non-Apple operating system, like Windows.
- Ax Sharma
- February 18, 2022
- 04:10 AM
- 6
Google Drive now warns you of suspicious phishing, malware docs

Google is rolling out new warning banners in Google Drive to alert users of potentially suspicious files that threat actors could use for malware delivery and in phishing attacks.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 25, 2022
- 11:31 AM
- 0
Google Drive flags nearly empty files for 'copyright infringement'

Users were left startled as Google Drive's automated detection systems flagged a nearly empty file for copyright infringement. The file, according to one Drive user, contained nothing other than just the digit "1" within.
- Ax Sharma
- January 25, 2022
- 03:08 AM
- 4
WhatsApp rolls out iOS, Android end-to-end encrypted chat backups

WhatsApp is rolling out end-to-end encrypted chat backups on iOS and Android to prevent anyone from accessing your chats, regardless of where they are stored.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 14, 2021
- 04:31 PM
- 6
A Google Drive security update will break some of your shared links

An upcoming security update for Google Drive will increase the security of your shared documents but likely break many of your shared links.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 24, 2021
- 09:17 AM
- 0
Google Workspace adds new phishing protection, client-side encryption

Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) has been updated with client-side encryption and new Google Drive phishing and malware content protection.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 15, 2021
- 08:00 AM
- 0
Adult content from hundreds of OnlyFans creators leaked online

After a shared Google Drive was posted online containing the private videos and images from many OnlyFans accounts, a researcher has created a tool allowing content creators to check if they are part of the leak.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 05, 2021
- 06:28 PM
- 4
Google Drive is having an outage, users see spinning wheel

Google Drive is suffering an outage causing users to be unable to access their stored files and are instead shown a spinning wheel.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 15, 2020
- 12:01 PM
- 1
Phishing Campaign Uses Google Drive to Bypass Email Gateways

A highly targeted phishing campaign was recently observed while bypassing a Microsoft email gateway using documents shared via the Google Drive service to target the staff of a company from the energy industry.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 14, 2019
- 10:36 AM
- 0
Google’s File Go Storage Being Rebranded for Its 30 Million Users

Google announced today that their Android Files Go storage app is being rebranded to the new name of Files by Google and that in less than a year, they have 30 million monthly users all over the world.
- Lawrence Abrams
- November 08, 2018
- 02:06 PM
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