Google fixes critical security bug in Gmail, G Suite services

Google, earlier in the week faced a lot of criticisms over the outage of Gmail and other G Suite services. It took close to six hours for the company to finally resolve the issue.

But, now it looks like Google before the G suite service outage, was busy fixing a critical security bug in the Gmail and if failed, it could have allowed cybercriminals to send spoofed emails to pray on Google service users.

As per the security expert Allison Husain, who first detected the loophole, says it allowed bad actors to bypass critical security protocols– Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC).