There are two to tango, and the same is true for an effective online security strategy. What does it mean? One the one side, the company offering a service needs to make sure that user accounts are protected on their servers, that no one can exploit vulnerabilities to gain login information or other data from [...]

Categories: Email, Google

Google’s email service Gmail offered for some time now an overview of the recent Gmail account activities which listed the access time, account connection type, IP address and country of the last Gmail logins. Access to this feature is provided at the bottom of every Gmail page by clicking on the Details link there. But [...]

Categories: Google

Gmail users had until now the choice to use http or https when connecting to the Gmail servers. Http offered performance advantages while https made up for it with an increase in security. Gmail users could either use the http or https protocol to connect to Gmail. The Gmail options provided the means to permanently [...]

Categories: Email

The official Gmail blog has published five security tips to improve the security of a Gmail account. Email security should be one of the top priorities for a number of reasons but especially because other accounts are usually associated with an email account. Just think of all the websites and services that require users to [...]

Categories: Email

Phishing is still one of the biggest security threats that users face on the Internet. It basically means that criminals are sending emails to users that make them believe they are coming from an email sender that they can trust. Most phishing emails pose as emails from financial organizations like PayPal or banks and ask [...]

Categories: Email, Security

One of the main questions for privacy and security interested Gmail users is whether they should stay signed in or log out whenever they leave the Gmail website. A Gmail Sign In works for quite some time until the user signs out when leaving the website. The main problem that privacy interested users have is [...]

Categories: Email, Security

News about domain hijackings came to light in the last weeks. The commonality was that all victims were using Google Mail as the primary email address of their websites. Yesterday a proof of concept for a Gmail security flaw was posted at the Geek Condition blog which explains how the attacker was able to hijack [...]

Categories: Email, Security

Google Mail introduced a new feature recently that can be helpful in finding out if someone else has or had access to your Gmail account. The function is a bit hidden in the footer area of Gmail after you log in. Just scroll down to the bottom until you reach the line at the bottom [...]

Categories: Email, Security