Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 Last night Google started rolling out the change that enables the "Always use https" feature of Gmail by default. This is a great change to finally see because any little bit helps.Source:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/default-https-access-for-gmail.html
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Monday, December 7th, 2009 Trusteer warned the customers of website hosting companies, including yahoo.com, against a new phishing attack aimed at stealing their content management system log-in credentials. The e-mails appear to be from a website hosting firm and ask website owners to confirm their cPanel/FTP account information. Using this information, criminals are uploading ...
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009 Leaving your email as plain text in forums, on Twitter or on classified sites makes you an easy spam target: spam robots and email harvesters constantly browse these sites to collect new victim emails.Don't share your email on public sites. Instead, use our free service that will convert your email ...
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Sunday, September 27th, 2009 With its last update, Microsoft has added StartCom to the pre-installed root certificates in its operating system. As a result, Microsoft products (such as Internet Explorer) now accept certificates issued by StartCom without prompting the user or requiring any special configurations for the certificates. Third-party programs that use the operating ...
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009 Chances are that in the past week you've received an e-mail in your inbox that pretends to be from your bank, e-commerce vendor, or other on-line site. Hopefully you've realized that many times this e-mail is fake - a phishing or spam e-mail. The sender (phisher) of these fake e-mails ...
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