Still responding to the National Security Agency surveillance revelations, Google is reportedly preparing to help users beef up Gmail security with end-to-end encryption. The search giant is working on a way to make Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption easier to use for Gmail fans, according to a report by Venture Beat.
Terrorists could use any one of several free US-based Web email services but they prefer Gmail, according to former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden.
By seemingly admitting that Gmail users should have "no legitimate expectation of privacy," Google's legal team has created a bit of a PR headache, with terrible timing to boot.
Jared Newman | 14 Aug | Read more
These days barely a day goes by where there isn’t some sort of network security breach or hack or malfunction of some sort. This year too we had the rise of groups such as Anonymous and Lulz that sought out attention for their activities. Here we take a look at the year in pictures of some of the key security problems that grabbed our attention.
Michael Cooney | 08 Dec | Read more
I'm a fan of being secure, so naturally I decided to turn on two-factor authentication for my Google account.
Rohan Pearce | 17 Nov | Read more
Gmail is hard at work restoring service to about 40,000 Gmail users after a software bug deleted their e-mail messages, folders, labels and filters. So, while things are looking good for those users affected by the bug, this episode proves, once again, that while Web-based services may be robust, you still have to take responsibility for your own data.
Google says it is "very sorry" for a Gmail software bug that reset some 150,000 accounts and left their owners contemplating the prospect of having lost years worth of data. The outage affected only a fraction of one per cent of Gmail users, but its severity was particularly noteworthy.
Paul McNamara | 02 Mar | Read more
The cloud has failed roughly 150,000 Gmail users, whose e-mails have been deleted and accounts disabled by a mysterious glitch.
Jared Newman | 01 Mar | Read more
Wanted by Google: Bounty-hunting hackers who can find security vulnerabilities in popular Web apps.
Jared Newman | 03 Nov | Read more
Google is investigating a growing number of reports that hackers are breaking into legitimate Gmail accounts and then using them to send spam messages.
Robert McMillan | 21 Apr | Read more
The Gmail accounts of foreign reporters in at least two news bureaus in Beijing have been hijacked, a journalists' group in China said Monday.
Owen Fletcher | 19 Jan | Read more
Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail were also targeted by a large-scale phishing attack, perhaps the same one that harvested at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, according to a report by the BBC.
Gregg Keizer | 07 Oct | Read more