Google Strengthens Gmail Security to Prevent Phishing, Malware and Hacking
Google is pushing hard to make Gmail as safe as it can possible. The search engine Giant rolled out few new features designed to prevent phishing, malware and hacking.
New feature will give warning on links sent through Gmail that may direct to insecure sites.
Google said the warnings will now show again after a user clicks such a link, and that the protection will work beyond the Chrome web browser and Gmail app as well, it said.
Google is also enhancing its warnings for a seldom type of Gmail intrusion: state-sponsored hacking attempts. Only fewer than 0.1 percent of Gmail users are affected-- generally activists, journalists and policy-makers-- but they need immediate care.
Additionally, Google said it had collaborated with others in the industry, including Comcast, Microsoft , and Yahoo to write and submit a draft proposal for new email encryption standard.
Google last month announced that it would be warning users who sent an email to a recipient that wasn’t using TLS encryption. According to Google, after adding this message, the number of emails sent over encrypted connections has increased by 25 percent.
On Safer Internet Day (Feb. 9), Google celebrated by giving 2 gigabytes of extra cloud storage to anyone who completed a security checkup.
The spokesperson addressed that significant strides were being made but there was still long way to go. For example, North America still tops the world in unencrypted traffic, with over 95 percent of that data from mobile devices.
