According to the most recent statistics from Spamhaus, Google ranks as number three in the ten worst spam service ISPs. Spamhaus keeps a running list of the world’s worst spam problem networks.
Naturally, since Google email is free, it lends itself to exploitation. Microsoft had been on the Spamhaus list in recent months, but the company has made efforts to combat the problem. In the past, spammers took advantage of Microsoft’s Live.com and livefilestore.com to redirect visitors to spammy sites promoting Nigerian scams, pharmaceutical products and the other usual suspects. The spammers have since moved on to Google in a similar attack method to take advantage of Google Documents.
In this technique, the spammers host pages that redirect users to their spammy sites. The attack works quite well, since most spam filters will not see a Google link as spam. Google is reportedly working on the problem. Read the rest of this entry »
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
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