Gmail security tightened

[Yukimura Sanada]

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Jan 14, 2010

Gmail security tightened

<!-- by line --> <!-- end by line --> MOUNTAIN VIEW (California) - GOOGLE is tightening the security of its free e-mail service to combat computer hackers like the ones that recently targeted it in China. With the shift, Gmail accounts will automatically be set in an 'https' mode, meaning contents of e-mail will be scrambled so they're less likely to leak out to unauthorised users. Before, only the log-in data was encrypted. Google hadn't been using this more secure format as Gmail's default setting because it can be slower than the unprotected mode. The shift to the more secure setting began late on Tuesday, just a few hours after Google announced Chinese hackers had pried into the e-mail accounts of human rights activists. Google is now considering pulling out of China and shutting down its search engine there because of the attacks. -- AP

 

[VIBGYOR]

Of course if you send your login password uncrypted over the internet, people can listen and pick it up mah!

need hackers meh? no need lah, just plug into the network and listen to the traffic....

anybody can do it!! just download the software!!

 

[kingrant]

LeongSam,

where are you? Can sammyboy also intro https:// for hjigher security?