Meanwhile, last week, Google announced a new security feature for its Gmail service.
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We strongly recommend that users go through all the precautionary measures in order to make sure that their email account is as secure as possible.
The study, in partnership with the University of MI and the University of IL, reveals that overall email security is better than it was two years ago.
Google claims that this vulnerability doesn’t apply to Gmail to Gmail correspondences; the in-house research confirmed that more than 94 per cent of incoming emails sent to Gmail accounts were protected with a few kind of authentication and technologies that identify phishing or impersonation. Emails sent from Gmail to other providers are encrypted 82 percent of the time whereas emails sent from a Gmail address to another Gmail address are always encrypted, reported TechTimes.
Unfortunately for those concerned by internet security, i.e. nearly everyone, Google apparently does not think the bug is a big deal.
The search giant also uncovered malicious DNS servers publishing fake routing information to email servers, allowing attackers to censor or alter messages before they arrive in a user’s inbox. Google says that. “The servers in question are like misleading phone numbers in the directories for a given name”.
A bug has been discovered in the official Gmail app for Android which lets you spoof your email address to anything you want, fooling others that they have received an email from someone else instead of you. Although such attacks are pretty rare, they are something to be anxious about as the attacker will be able to edit the message before it is relayed.
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In Tunisia, Iraq, Papua New Guinea, Nepal, Kenya, Uganda and Lesotho, over 20% of emails are delivered without encryption because computers force communication in plain text.
