Elamb Cybersecurity

Tag: gmail

  • gmail security

    gmail security

    Gmail is one of my favorite email products.  Its free, its extremely good at collecting and organizing data (in-line with google’s vision of world information organization domination) and its so intuitive.

    The gmail security features are kind of tucked away to bring the organization and search functions to the foreground.  But once you know where they are, its easy.

    1. First, browse into your email and sign in.

     

    2. Inside your email under your name, click privacy.

    3. Under Account Privacy, hit Security and add alternate recovery email and mobile number.   This will allow gmail security to alert you of any suspicious activity such as someone attempting to access your account.

    gmail security
    gmail security

  • More GMAIL Problems

    This was news I could not ignore because I really, really like Gmail. These hacks are ridiculous. I hope that google is getting a handle on this. It looks like the accounts are getting hacked with some sort of script that runs from a site or email while gmail is opened:

    According to David Airey & gnucitizen.org:
    The victim visits a page while being logged into GMail. Upon execution, the page performs a multipart/form-data POST to one of the GMail interfaces and injects a filter into the victim’s filter list. In the example above, the attacker writes a filter, which simply looks for emails with attachments and forward them to an email of their choice. This filter will automatically transfer all emails matching the rule. Keep in mind that future emails will be forwarded as well. The attack will remain present for as long as the victim has the filter within their filter list, even if the initial vulnerability, which was the cause of the injection, is fixed by Google.
    — gnucitizen

    As many of you already know on November 2nd, MakeUseOf.com’s domain was stolen from us. It took us about 36 hours to get the domain back. As we have pointed out earlier the hacker somehow managed to get access to my Gmail account and from there to our GoDaddy account, unlock the domain and move it to another registrar.

    You can see the whole story on our temporary blog makeuseof-temporary.blogspot.com/

    I wasn’t planning to publish anything about the incident or cracker (person who steals domains) and how he managed to pull it off unless I was completely sure about it myself. I had a good feeling it was a Gmail security flaw but wanted to confirm it before posting anything about it on MakeUseOf. We love Gmail and giving them bad publicity is not something we would ever want to do.

    Now the thing is the domain name domainsgames.org is protected by Moniker and they hide all the contact info for it.

    Domain ID:D154519952-LROR
    Domain Name:DOMAINSGAME.ORG
    Created On:22-Oct-2008 07:35:56 UTC
    Last Updated On:08-Nov-2008 12:11:53 UTC
    Expiration Date:22-Oct-2009 07:35:56 UTC
    Sponsoring Registrar:Moniker Online Services Inc. (R145-LROR)
    Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
    Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
    Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
    Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
    Registrant ID:MONIKER1571241
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    Name Server:NS3.DOMAINSERVICE.COM
    Name Server:NS2.DOMAINSERVICE.COM
    Name Server:NS1.DOMAINSERVICE.COM
    Name Server:NS4.DOMAINSERVICE.COM

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