· GMAIL IMPROVING SECURITY FEATURES FOR
EMAIL USERS WITH ADVANCED WARNING ABOUT UNENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION
Submitted by Rachel Walters on
Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:26 from nycity.com
Google’s free email service Gmail is planning to introduce some
interesting security features and will inform email users in case the email
communication is not encrypted. Google’s Email service informed on its official
blog that within three months, the changes will be rolled out for most of the
Gmail users. The new features will warn users in case they receive an email
from non-gmail users and those messages aren’t encrypted.
After NSA’s snooping incidents came to light, encrypted email
and communications via other applications have been in demand. The emails sent
through Gmail are already encrypted and people using Gmail as their email
provider will not see any change.
As per the data provided by Google, Gmail users currently
receive nearly 61 percent of their emails from non-gmail users as encrypted.
The information regarding new security features was shared by Elie Bursztein,
Anti-Fraud and Abuse Research and Nicolas Lidzborski, Gmail Security
Engineering Lead.
Gmail engineers have closely worked with the University of
Michigan, and the University of Illinois researchers to improve security
features on Google’s email service. Google currently provides free email
accounts with 15GB space. Gmail already offers strong security settings for
users. Gmail also offers a very effective spam filter which has reduced the
trouble of deleting unwanted and promotional emails.
Google said, “We’re constantly working to help make email more
secure for everyone. These efforts are reflected in security protections like
default HTTPS in Gmail as well as our Safer Email Transparency report, which
includes information about email security beyond just Gmail.”
Google's Security blog said....
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First, we found regions of the Internet actively preventing
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pioneered with Chrome to protect websites against interception.
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