Tag: Gmail

December 19, 2022

Google has become the latest company to roll out an encryption upgrade, revealing it Gmail email service is set to get full end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support, but not all users will be able to get it. In an update on […]

April 13, 2021

Member of parliament and Foreign Affairs Committee chair Tom Tugendhat has made the claim that the UK’s intelligence services unofficially told him to stop using his official parliamentary email in favour of Google’s Gmail service over concerns that the government’s […]

May 28, 2020

One of Russia’s most advanced state-sponsored hacker groups has added several devious new tools to its arsenal, security researchers have warned. Although the Turla group is still using the v4 version of the ComRAT malware, ESET researchers warned that this […]

April 17, 2020

Google announced that its anti-malware solutions implemented to defend its Gmail users have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures within the last seven days. The IT giant also announced to have blocked more than 240 […]

February 7, 2019

Tensorflow, Google’s open-source machine learning framework, has been used to block 100 million spam messages. Google reports Gmail is blocking 100 million extra spam emails per day following the implementation of Tensorflow, its open source, machine-learning framework, to supplement existing […]

February 6, 2019

Criminals are taking advantage of Gmail’s ‘dots don’t matter’ feature to set up multiple fraudulent accounts on websites, using variations of the same email address, Agari says. Some cybercriminals are taking advantage of a long-standing feature in Google Gmail designed […]

August 14, 2017

Google has announced the rollout of new anti-phishing checks for the iOS Gmail app: in less than two weeks, all users will be confronted with two warnings if they attempt to follow a suspicious link from within the app. The first one […]

February 20, 2017

As of earlier this week, anyone who tries to send a .js (JavaScript) file attachment via Gmail will be out of luck, as they’re now on Google’s list of restricted file types for attachments. That means that GMail users can’t send or […]

February 20, 2017

Gmail users can expect the introduction of SMTP Strict Transport Security to the email service some time this year, bringing a measure of security similar to certificate pinning to one of the world’s biggest webmail services. Elie Bursztein, the head […]

February 17, 2017

As of February 13th, 2017, Gmail has started deploying their new restrictive policy on .js file attachments, extending their list of file types blocked for security reasons. After the full release, Gmail users won’t be able to send or receive […]

January 31, 2017

Recent phishing scams targeted both Gmail and Yahoo, and now attackers have their sights set on PayPal with some very convincing bait. With fake websites and email campaigns that look real, it’s easy to be fooled, and potentially have your […]

January 18, 2017

The phishers start by compromising a Gmail account, then they rifle through the emails the user has recently received. After finding one with an attachment, they create an image (screenshot) of it and include it in a reply to the […]

August 16, 2016

Google announced a new feature in the Safe Browsing warning set, it will warn users when they will receive an email message from an unauthenticated sender. Google always takes care of security, the last features announced by the IT giant […]

February 11, 2016

From now on, Gmail users will be able to see whether their communications with other email account holders – whether Gmail or any other email service – is secured. If it’s not, there will be a red broken lock icon […]

September 25, 2015

With the Smartphone revolution and the wide choice of free messaging services available, receiving an #sms is definitely an unusual occurrence. Instead of being a way for friends and family to communicate, it has now become the preferred way for […]

July 29, 2015

Social bookmarking web service Delicious has released a free beta version of Dmail, an extension for the Chrome browser, which allows senders to delete an email they sent and have regretted sending soon after. The extension currently works if the […]

June 22, 2015

Security researcher Slawomir Grzonkowski is warning of a simple – yet clever – spear-phishing scam that is targeting Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail users in an effort to trick them into letting an attacker take over their accounts. The attack method […]