Gmail Notifies Users Of Unencrypted Messages

Google Gmail users will now warn if they receive unencrypted messages, as the Internet giant has on Safer Internet Day 2016 announced . Google itself uses TLS encryption for encrypting messages. Gmail users can send encrypted messages to each other in this way. TLS is not yet used by all email providers.

This allows messages that Gmail users received via this e-mail providers, or send to this, be read. Gmail will therefore present a warning showing that the email provider of the addressee no encryption support, or if a message is received that is not encrypted via TLS. There will also be a warning if the sender's domain could not be authenticated. Gmail recently did not know that more and more support major email providers tls and domain authentication.

From investigation of Google, the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois show that from December 2013 to October 2015 the number of encrypted emails rose Gmail non-Gmail users received from 33% to 61%. In the same period, the number of emails were encrypted using TLS and Gmail to non-Gmail users was sent from 60% to 80%. Further uses 94% of the incoming email for Gmail, a form of authentication to protect against phishing and spoofing.

John Rae-Grant Google argues that not all e-mails which warned is dangerous. "But we advise you to be extra careful when answering or opening links in messages that you have doubts about. And by this update, you have the resources to make that decision."

Gmail Will Automatically Generate Replies To Emails

To ensure that Gmail users are able to answer emails quickly and have more time this week, Google will roll out a new feature called "Smart Reply". In this case, e-mails Google will offer suggestions that can be answered with a short reply.

Via a tap the answer can then be sent. Smart Reply shall propose three possible answers, based on the emails received by a user. "The e-mails that only require you do not have to think a quick response and can save valuable time," says software engineer Miklos Balin. To present the answers, Google uses "machine learning" so that the inbox does not recognize the e-mails that require an answer and it is real-time generated a response.

Germany Argues Obligation To Retain Telecommunications Data Back In

After a period of five years, telecom providers in Germany again required to save the behavioral data of their subscribers. The German parliament voted by a large majority for the introduction of a new data retention, reports the German newspaper Der Spiegel today.

In 2010 the German Constitutional Court annulled the data retention unconstitutional. All retained telecommunications data should be destroyed and the law had to be rewritten. The new obligation to retain telecommunications data providers should keep the telephone and Internet subscriber data for a period of ten weeks. This concerns, for example who is calling whom and when. E-mails are excluded from the provision.

For location information of mobile phone calls subject to a retention period of four weeks. The behavioral data storage would be needed to combat terrorism and serious crime. Heiko Maas, the German Minister of Justice, will be met by the reduced storage of data and strict admission requirements to the concerns of the Court.

Yahoo Mail App Allows Users With No Password To Login

Yahoo today launched a redesigned Mail app which allows users without a password to login. In addition, e-mail accounts from multiple e-mail providers are supported, as the Internet giant announced. New in the app is the addition of the "Yahoo! Account Key".

This key is according to Yahoo a simpler and safer alternative to the password. During login, users need a password to give more but simply a tap of a button. In this case, a notification with the Key Account is sent to the smartphone. The user can then via a single tap to confirm that he really wants to log in, then he is also logged as Yahoo late in a blog posting know. The new Yahoo Mail app is available for iOS and will appear later today on Google Play.

Hackers May Have Stolen Emails Obama

Hackers would have received last year in an attack on an unclassified system from the White House to access e-mails of US President Barack Obama. That allow government officials across the New York Times to know. The classified systems of the White House, including the servers that Obama used to communicate via his BlackBerry, would not be cracked.

Knew the attackers to gain access to an email archive of people inside the White House, with whom Obama communicates regularly. From these accounts, reports were taken by the US president had sent and received, according to the officials who were familiar with the investigation into the burglary.

How many emails were captured would not tell them, and the sensitivity of the content. The email account of Obama himself would not have been hacked. According to the New York Times, the severity of the break for months are known to officials.Who exactly is behind the attack is unknown, but the US government looks at Russia.

Fake Email Wehkamp Spreads Ransomware

Mail order company Wehkamp warns Internet users for an email that already goes around a few days and seems to come from the company, but in reality that is spreading ransomware encrypts files for ransom.According to the email, the recipient would have placed an order with Wehkamp.

It is the computer game Fifa 15 for the PlayStation 3. The message notes for more information on the order to the included zip annex which has an order number. The zip annex again contains an .exe file with an icon from Adobe that the malware appears to be. It is a variant of CTB Locker, which stands for Curve Tor Bitcoin. This ransomware resurfaced last year for the first time. Once users the .exe file to open the computer becomes infected and all kinds of files encrypted. Then users get some days to pay the ransom for decrypting the files.

The infected e-mails using the name of Wehkamp went last week all around, according to a warning from security researcher Mark Loman Twitter. Since then notify all kinds of Twitter users that they have the message received . Increasingly it appears to the so-called order of the computer. "There is indeed a phishing email around that does not come from us. You can best remove him immediately and not open!", says Wehkamp via Twitter.