Frighteningly bad thing, said Foreground Security, of flaw allowing hackers to hijack sites, attack users
Hackers can exploit a flaw in Adobe's Flash to compromise nearly every Web site that allows users to upload content, including Google's Gmail, then launch silent attacks on visitors to those sites, security researchers said today.
The new feature is called "Got the wrong Bob?"
Google's Gmail webmail service can now detect if users have included a potentially incorrect recipient in an e-mail message they're sending to a group of people.
Was phishing really how all these stolen e-mail passwords were obtained?
In the wake of the posting in online forums of stolen account and password information for thousands of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo e-mail accounts, there's evidence of yet more abuse that entails attackers exploiting that information to hack into compromised accounts over the last few days to send spam aimed at stealing credit cards.
Could botnets, keylogging be to blame for password leaks?
One researcher isn't buying Microsoft's and Google's explanation that hijacked Hotmail and Gmail passwords were obtained in a massive phishing attack.
Downplays scam, says 'small number' of accounts compromised
Google confirmed today that passwords for its free Gmail online e-mail service had been harvested by hackers, but downplayed the phishing attack as involving just a "small number" of accounts.
BBC reports Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and others targeted by industry-wide attack
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.
An Italian prosecutor said the problem lies in how Google manages its Gmail e-mail service
An Italian prosecutor has accused Google of violating Italian and European regulations in the way it handles its e-mail communications, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported Monday.
Move helps Google play catch-up in its ongoing race for the enterprise
Can't wait to get back to your desk to check your Gmail messages? Well, now you may not have to wait.
Engineer says they're still investigating what caused the nearly two-hour crash
After a nearly two-hour outage, Google Inc. is getting its Gmail e-mail service back up and running this evening.
Google will spend the next two weeks making changes and improving reliability to keep the Gmail problem from happening again
A worldwide outage of Google's Gmail online e-mail system on Tuesday was caused by a traffic jam on its servers, according to Google's official Gmail blog.
The popular Google e-mail service went down for most of its users for almost two hours
Google's Gmail e-mail service was down for most of its users worldwide for almost two hours, affecting not only individuals who use it for personal matters but also organizations and their employees who depend on it as their business e-mail system.
The popular Google e-mail service is down for most of its users
Google's Gmail e-mail service is currently down for a majority of its tens of millions of users, the company acknowledged Tuesday afternoon.
Our own ideas for some new -- and, perhaps, unconventional -- features we'd like to see in Gmail
In the early days, Gmail hooked us with its innovative features, like the way it threaded together e-mails under the same subject.
The following tips, tricks, and add-ons make the Gmail experience even better
Gmail ushered in a whole new way of accessing and managing e-mail. Many people think that it's a major improvement over the old desktop-app approach.
The alarming thing about the methods used is they could happen to anyone
The French hacker who broke into Twitter's Google Apps and stole more than 300 private company documents has revealed in detail how he did it.