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    Google Gmail

    Google Enhances Gmail With New Security Features

    Google announced a new collaboration with other major companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo and Comcast, to implement a new protocol that would ensure all email remains encrypted in transit. Google also introduced a new page in its Safe Browsing system that will encourage those under attack by governments to increase their security by using SMS-based two-factor authentication or a physical Security Key.
    Earlier this year, Google introduced some notifications in Gmail that would alert users before they would send their email to another address that doesn’t use encryption. According to Google, this has had the effect of increasing the amount of email sent over encrypted connections by 25 percent.
    However, Google also found out from the recent research it has done with the Universities of Michigan and Illinois that attackers could still tamper with email encryption. That’s why it collaborated with Microsoft, Yahoo, and Comcast to create the SMTP Strict Transport Security standard to ensure that email travels only through encrypted channels. Any issues with the encryption would also be reported so that the companies can better understand where the attacks are happening.
    Since 2012, Google has begun warning Gmail users of state-sponsored attacks. According to the company, only 0.1 percent of its users have been the targets of such attacks, although considering Gmail has hundreds of millions of users, that’s still hundreds of thousands of attacked users. The targets typically include activists, journalists and policy-makers.

    For those that are targeted by state-sponsored attackers, Google launched a new warning page that also acts as an instructions page for how to increase their own security. The users can enable SMS-based two-factor authentication or a FIDO U2F-enabled Security Key.
    Although these new security features should help email encryption become stronger, the state-of-the-art remains end-to-end encryption, such as the one employed by PGP-based tools. Ultimately, most of these companies working on the new email encryption protocol rely on revenue from advertising, which implies data mining their users’ email contents.
    That’s why it's in direct conflict with end-to-end encryption, because only the users communicating with each other could see the email contents. Google was supposed to also work on the End-To-End encryption browser plugin, but so far progress has been rather slow on that front. Even if it’s eventually finished, it likely won’t be used or promoted as a default solution for most Gmail users.
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    Google Announces Bolder Gmail Security Warnings And A Heads-Up If The Government Is Hacking And Spying On You

    Last week, we learned about the company teaming up with others, such as Microsoft and Yahoo, to make SMTP 'Strict Transport Security' a reality, a protocol that would make it even harder for malicious users to gain access to our email. In a new blog post, the company draws our attention to SMTP STS as well as a couple of other recent (and not so recent) ways the company has improved our security. On Safer Internet Day, which happened a month-and-a-half ago, the company introduced a new Gmail feature that highlights when email is received or being sent to a domain that doesn't offer encryption. You'll see this as a broken lock inside a compose window or received email window if the connection is insecure.
    image: http://hothardware.com/ContentImages...ed_Warning.jpg
    As it happens, that super simple move has paid off handsomely so far in the first month-and-a-half it's been deployed. Google notes that in that short time, encrypted email counts rose 25 percent. Given the timing, it's a little hard to call it a coincidence. Another notable feature is one we've all been bound to stumble on: Safe Browsing. This one kicks in when a phishing attack is attempted, or if a website is known to be malicious.
    The company expanded its security feature portfolio in 2012 with warnings that identify those targeted by the government, or in other terms, "state-sponsored" attacks. If such an intrusion attempt is detected, Google's warning will include a link that will allow the user to beef up the protection on their account as much as possible.
    Google notes that less than 0.1% of users will ever see these warnings, which actually seems a bit high when you look at it from the standpoint of that being 1 in every 1,000. With millions of people using Gmail, that would mean that tens of thousands of people have received these messages since 2012.
    For its latest addition, Google has enhanced some of its most important security warnings with a full-page roadblock. This will come up if the government is believed to be trying to access your account, or even if you click on a phishing link that you shouldn't have - as a way of warning you twice. This is a good move, as many people might not actually notice the first warning due to rushing or simply not paying attention.
    Unless Google pulls another surprise out of its hat in the near-future, the next big security update from the company we have to look forward to is SMTP STS. That rollout truly can't happen quick enough, especially with certain government agencies expressing so much interest in gaining access to our email (and other data).


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    http://www.portugal-tech.pt/image.php?type=sigpic&userid=566&dateline=1384876765

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    Gmail Says Use of Encrypted Emails Has Risen 25%


    We use email every day, be it sending them for work or personal reasons or getting a thousand and one emails advertising everything from something you are interested in helping a foreign prince distribute their wealth. One way that you can be protected when sending emails is to send encrypted emails, something which has risen in use by 25% for Gmail users.
    What caused this spur of encrypted emails? Google stated last year that they would start flagging up emails which were unencrypted, warning users which providers and emails were being sent from services that supported TLS encryption. This change came into effect in February this year, the end result of which was the 25% increase in encrypted emails that Gmail has reported in the last month.
    Google isn’t acting alone on this, with Comcast, Microsoft, Yahoo and other companies in the industry looking to create SMTP, a new standard that could be used to help protect emails from man-in-the-middle attacks.
    Combining all these with their recent push on security updates in Chrome and Android, including their use of two-factor authentication encryption and warning people about state-sponsored attacks on accounts, it’s becoming more and more clear that even in the digital world, companies want your private information to remain private.
    Noticia:
    http://www.eteknix.com/gmail-says-us...-has-risen-25/
    http://www.portugal-tech.pt/image.php?type=sigpic&userid=566&dateline=1384876765

 

 

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