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Securing Your Gmail With Just a Click

2008-08-21 15:51:12 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...gmail with SSL, at least. Thanks to Martin McKeay for the tip the big Goog has enabled HTTPS in the Gmail options settings Gmail has been capable of running on SSL for quite some time, but its not something thats enabled by default. I always typed the https in by hand, but I dont completely trust that method. Ive used Better Gmail2 in the...
 
Tags: gmail, force gmail, secure gmail, gmail options settings, page, settings page, ssl, completely trust, martin mckeay
 
 
 
 
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Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmails CAPTCHA Broken

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2008-07-03 08:36:21 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and the most popular Russian email providers in the thousands. Once the inventory of registered accounts drops due to someone's purchase, it continues registering one to two email accounts per second Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmails CAPTCHA broken by spammers Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmails CAPTCHAs, has been an urban...
 
Tags: captcha, hotmails captcha, captcha authentication, bogus accounts, accounts, text based captcha, accounts drops due, do-it-yourself captcha, yahoo
 
 
 
 
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Check if Your Gmail is Hacked with Activity Monitor

2008-10-02 07:30:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
This time I want to go over one new Gmail feature. It watches your account and displays a notification when someone else logs into your account. Basically a nice little feature from Gmail team that lets you check if someone has hacked into your Gmail account
 
Tags: gmail account, account, gmail feature, feature, check, gmail team, time, logs, nice
 
 
 
 
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Using GPG/PGP/FireGPG to Encrypt and Sign Email from Gmail

2008-01-14 00:56:47 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Gmail This tutorial will show how to use GPG and the FireGPG plug-in to encrypt and decrypt messages in Gmail. GPG is an open source implementation of OpenPGP (Pretty Good Privacy) , a public-key-encryption system. With public key encryption you dont have to give away the secret key that decrypts data for people to be able to send you...
 
Tags: encrypt, public key encryption, public key, secret key, sign email, gpg, gmail, decrypt messages, messages
 
 
 
 
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MessageLabs versus GMail

2008-03-31 16:22:07 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
MessageLab mail forwarders have been unwilling to talk to GMail servers at least since Saturday 2008-03-29, with a mix of TCP connection refused and SMTP 421 Service Temporarily Unavailable Perhaps its related to flurry of articles about GMail CAPTCHA cracking three weeks ago and the resulting surge of spam Whatever the reason, its a painful outage
 
Tags: messagelab mail forwarders, service temporarily unavailable, painful outage, weeks ago, tcp connection, gmail servers, gmail captcha, articles, smtp
 
 
 
 
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Security Flaw Turns Gmail into Open-Relay Server

2008-05-11 04:02:32 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A newfound flaw in Google's Gmail allows would-be spammers to treat the service as an open-relay server. Compounding the issue is the fact that services such as Hotmail and Yahoo "trust" Gmail. This may facilitate e-mail delivery, but it also makes it easier for spammers to reach their intended targets
 
Tags: open-relay server, gmail, would-be spammers, spammers, e-mail delivery, newfound flaw, google, reach, treat
 
 
 
 
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Using GPG/PGP/FireGPG to Encrypt and Sign Email from Gmail

2008-01-14 00:56:47 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Gmail This tutorial will show how to use GPG and the FireGPG plug-in to encrypt and decrypt messages in Gmail. GPG is an open source implementation of OpenPGP (Pretty Good Privacy) , a public-key-encryption system. With public key encryption you dont have to give away the secret key that decrypts data for people to be able to send you...
 
Tags: encrypt, public key encryption, public key, secret key, sign email, gpg, gmail, decrypt messages, messages
 
 
 
 
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Using GPG/PGP/FireGPG to Encrypt and Sign Email from Gmail

2008-01-14 00:56:47 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Gmail This tutorial will show how to use GPG and the FireGPG plug-in to encrypt and decrypt messages in Gmail. GPG is an open source implementation of OpenPGP (Pretty Good Privacy) , a public-key-encryption system. With public key encryption you donât have to give away the secret key that decrypts data for people to be able to send you...
 
Tags: encrypt, public key encryption, public key, secret key, sign email, gpg, gmail, decrypt messages, messages
 
 
 
 
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Googles GMail security failure screws a Blogger/Designer!

2007-12-25 17:50:06 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Shocking revelation by a well known designer..a must read...if you are using gmail...you may not be secure
 
Tags: gmail, designer, secure, revelation
 
 
 
 
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Rise in Gmail spam indicates more solved CAPTCHAs

2008-03-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b38594 in Network World on Security