‘Significant Threat’—Billions Of Gmail Users At Risk From Google Security Gaffe

Updated May 12: This article, orginally published May 11, which revealed a critical flaw in the integration between Gmail and Google Drive that poses a significant security threat to nearly everyone who uses a Gmail account, has now been updated to include details of a second security discrepancy uncovered by the same researcher, this time concerning a circumvention of Google Drive’s dangerous files protection warnings. Here’s everything you need to know about both security issues, along with advice on how billions of Gmail users can stay safe.

According to Blake Barnes, Google’s own vice president of product for Gmail, “3 billion users rely on Gmail to connect and get things done,” while Google Drive has an estimated one billion active users. I can exclusively reveal that an architectural flaw in the integration between the two services poses a significant…