Posted May 12th, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
Spam messages have surged to outrageous levels currently representing 95% of all email communications throughout the Internet. Because of that, it is simply not feasible to apply the full power of spam filtering to every single message that is received by email servers. This problem is tackled by the use of blacklists of IP addresses [...]
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Posted November 1st, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Google during the recent Analyst Day announced they want to release an updated version of Gmail that’s supposed to be faster than the current one, thanks to a JavaScript back-end rewrite. Also, the new version aims to improve contacts management. “Gmail 2.0” – possibly the announced update – was also mentioned in Google’s internal company [...]
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Posted October 24th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol, lets you download messages from Gmail’s servers onto your computer so you can access your mail with a program like Microsoft Outlook Express or Apple Mail, even when you aren’t connected to the Internet.
IMAP creates a constant connection between mail clients (desktop and/or mobile) and Gmail.
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Posted October 1st, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Google has patched a recently reported Gmail flaw that could allow attackers to steal information from inside a user account.
The vulnerability was discovered by independent security researcher Petko Petkov, who classified it as a cross-site request forgery.
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Posted September 28th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Petko Petkov of ethical hacking group GNUCitizen has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming e-mails from Google Gmail users.
“This can be used to forward all your incoming e-mail,” Pure Hacking security researcher Chris Gatford told ZDNet Australia. “It’s just a proof of concept at the moment but what they’re demonstrating is the [...]
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Posted September 25th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Gmail was launched on April 1, 2004, and has revolutionized the way many of us use email. The interface has remained largely untouched since it launched, but get ready, it’s soon to undergo a change in what they describe as a “New Version”.
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