Information Protection and Security

Users need to be able to recognize illicit attempts to elicit their account information.Microsoft recommends customers use the following protective security measures:

The scale of a phishing attack originally thought to be directed at Hotmail may be larger than previously thought.

The scale of a phishing attack originally thought to be directed at Hotmail may be larger than previously thought.

A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data.

Google announces that it may make use of HTTPS the default configuration for Gmail. The move comes after several security and privacy experts sent an open letter to the company urging enhanced protections for Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar.
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