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Google adds anti-phishing features to Gmail

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John P. Mello, Jr.

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Early in June, search giant Google revealed that hundreds of accounts for its cloud-based email service, Gmail — among them the accounts of some senior U.S. government officials — were hacked as a result of a massive phishing scheme. With some new features added to Gmail on June 28, Google hopes to blunt such attacks in the future.

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Phishing Scam Threatens Users with Gmail Deactivation – msnbc.com

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Online phishers are hoping to lure unsuspecting Gmail users into handing over personal information by convincing them that their email accounts are about to be deactivated. Spotted by the security firm Sophos , the phishing emails are titled “De-Activation …
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Report: Targeted attacks aimed at Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail – CNET News

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Google said earlier this week that it had disrupted a targeted phishing campaign against Gmail users that appeared to originate in China. The attackers were trying to monitor e-mails and use stolen passwords to change the settings in the accounts so that e …
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Gmail attack shows growing cybercrime sophistication – CNN

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The level of sophistication of attacks shows the growing difficulty in guarding against cyber criminals. “I long for the days of the Melissa and ‘I love you’ computer viruses,” says Parenty, referring e-mail viruses that circulated the globe in 1999 and …
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