Google integrates an anti-phishing tool in its mail service Gmail
Phishing is one of the most common Internet fraud. The old trick of impersonation, impersonate of whom are not. But adapted to new technologies, email and web pages. One opens a message that purports to be from your bank, click on a link apparently harmless, and actually go to a page set up by some criminals. Thieves who mounted a replica of the real bank’s website to obtain the keys and user passwords. From there, the theft is a little less than assured.
Therefore, any progress against this technique called phishing will always be welcome. The latest to launch a tool against fraud is for Google’s free email service Gmail. For now, the tool only works with messages that try to simulate the origin of the popular auction site eBay and PayPal payment system. The tool, which is part of Google Labs laboratory, recognizes a digital signature in all messages from eBay and PayPal. The authentication system is used by DomainKeys, and all the emails from not bearing the signature will be directly blocked by Gmail, not even reach the mailbox unwanted damn spam. To activate the tool only has to follow these simple steps …
This new feature from Gmail can be enabled by accessing the Settings tab and then to the Labs feature is called “Icon of authentication for senders verified. It seems that in future also be available to other sites, not just for eBay and PayPal.
During recent years, the numbers of phishing have been fired. One of the companies most affected by this fraud has been PayPal. Some people were dedicated to impersonate employees of the company. Users who opened the email was redirected to an external website to PayPal, where they introduced their personal information and password. Later, the phisher, who is well known as those engaged in this, using that data to steal money they had in the account. That’s why it was so urgent that such a system for mail servers.
For now, the only thing it offers is Gmail, but it sure does not take long to see included in such a role in some services as competition Ymail, Hotmail and AOL.
What is not yet removed to continue receiving emails, which aim to steal personal data. To avoid these scams, we will never tire of repeating that there is NEVER click a link in an email message coming from a bank or any company that requests personal information.
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