Recently people around the world are receiving phishing attempts targeting their g-mail accounts. Be very careful with these as they are very crafty in their ability to fool people. They are using graphics that recreate the G-mail login page perfectly. The full story is described over at Help Net Security
If you are using Google to search on the internet there is a very simple method to protect yourself from malicious search engine results. To accomplish this simply use SSL for your search. i.e. use https://www.google.com as your starting point. This prevents you from getting redirected to these sites. There are more and more hackers using this method to infect people with malware. So, now you have a good and simple method to block these sites.
Network World has a new report on a report that hackers are breaking into a number of GMail accounts. If you didn't recieve the word yesterday, please make sure that you take the precaution and change your GMail password.
In light of recent information that is slowly being divulged regarding China's recent attack on google, I am advising people who own Gmail accounts to immediately change their password(s). there is a possibility that the information that was stolen who allow the perpetrators to have cracked Google's password code somehow. I'm not sure of exactly what goes on, but there is enough evidence to suggest that it would be wise for users to change their account passwords. Some of the comments in the article that was posted at the New York Times yesterday is enough evidence for me. Read it yourself:
