Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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News29 new results for Gmail
 
Google Adds Personal Gmail Results Into Search
All Things Digital
In a major move to integrate personal search and Web search, Google is adding some users' Gmail into their search results as a "limited field trial," it said today. So when participating users search for "Amazon," information from their own recent purchase ...
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Hacker succeeds, forces Apple, Amazon to change security policies
CNET
As the hackers' initial plan was to get access to Honan's Twitter, they first looked up his Twitter and guessed his Gmail account. From there, as Honan did not have two-factor authentication turned on, they were able to view his backup email address, which ...
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CNET
Google exec urges two-factor authentication in wake of tech reporter hack job
Computerworld
Gmail offers two-factor authentication, as does one of its rivals, Yahoo Mail. However, Microsoft's Hotmail, and the recent revamp, Outlook.com, does not. Microsoft's email services only provide a one-time code, sent to a pre-defined phone, that can be used to ...
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How Not to Become Mat Honan: A Short Primer on Online Security
Wired News (blog)
Gmail and other services offer two-factor authentication that help secure your account even if your password is stolen or cracked. When you set up two-factor authentication, you get verification codes delivered to your phone, which you then enter, in addition to ...
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Turn on Gmail's 2-Step Verification – Now
Mashable
If you use Gmail, please, before you get up from this session at the computer, turn on the "2-step verification" that Google has offered, for free, since early last year. OK, you are allowed to get up if you don't have your cell phone/smartphone at hand, because ...
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Hacking nightmare a cautionary tale
San Francisco Chronicle
Honan's Gmail address was there, and they used Google's automated password-recovery setup to get a glimpse at his guessable alternative e-mail address, which happened to be an Apple .me account. -- Next, they looked up the information on Honan's Web ...
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How to Keep Hackers Off of Your Cloud
TechNewsWorld
They used his public LinkedIn page to obtain his Gmail address. Then they used Gmail to display his account recovery page. That's when they hit gold. The recovery page contains an email address -- albeit studded with asterisks -- where account access ...
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Apple changes security features after embarrassing episode
San Jose Mercury News
In addition, the hacker gained access to Honan's Gmail account, as well as his Twitter account and the account of his former employer, Gizmodo. "In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed," Honan said in a follow-up report for his current ...
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Google Search To Integrate Gmail (And More From Press Breakfast)
Search Engine Land
I'm here at Google San Francisco, where an array of press and bloggers (about 25 of us) have been called together with only a few days notice to get an update on what's new with Google Search. Big news to come? We'll see. I'll be live blogging what ...
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Search Engine Land
Tips From Mat Honan After the Hack That Brought Down His Cloud
PBS
In the process, they deleted his Gmail account and wreaked havoc in his iCloud, deleting data shared on multiple devices, including his iPhone, iPad and MacBook. As Honan attempts to recover what data can be salvaged, the NewsHour asked him what he ...
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New: Gmail Results Embedded In Google Search Results
Search Engine Land
Google announced in this mornings Google Search Breakfast they are integrating Gmail emails directly into Google search results. This means you can search Google and find emails from your Gmail (or Google Apps) account directly in the search results.
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Search Engine Land
Easy Amazon.com, Apple password reset procedures to blame for huge hack
Examiner.com
Honan's Gmail address was available there. They then used Google's automated password-recovery system. One aspect of that is to give a user a look at part of their alternative email address, which in Honan's case was m••••n@me.com (much of the address ...
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Examiner.com
Apple, Amazon Change Security Policies After Hack Attack on Journalist
DailyTech
Earlier this week, Honan found that someone had hacked into his Gmail, Twitter, Amazon and Apple iCloud accounts. That someone was a 19-year-old referred to as "Phobia" (along with an unknown accomplice), and they were able to do this through security ...
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DailyTech
Amazon.com quickly changes policy that led to digital destruction of user's life
Examiner.com
Matt Honan saw his Gmail account deleted, his Twitter account hijacked, and one-and-a-half years worth of pictures of his infant daughter deleted. In addition, everything else on hie MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone were wiped. At least part of the hack that led ...
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Examiner.com
Apple freezes AppleID password resets requested over the phone
CNET
Apple freezes AppleID password resets requested over the phone. Move comes after the hack of a Wired reporter's AppleID and Amazon accounts, leading to the loss of Gmail and Twitter accounts and multiple device wipes. Steven Musil. by Steven Musil ...
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How hackers erased one tech writer's entire online life
The Week Magazine
"When I opened my laptop, an iCal message popped up telling me that my Gmail account information was wrong. Then the screen went gray, and asked for a four-digit PIN," says Honan. "I didn't have a four-digit pin." Later that night, he learned that two ...
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In Today's Performance, the Role of Microsoft Will Be Played by Apple
Businessweek
They infiltrated his Twitter, Gmail (GOOG), Amazon.com, and Apple iCloud accounts, and took over his Mac laptop, iPhone, and iPad, wiping data remotely from all of the devices, while Honan looked on in astonishment. Most of the dirty work wasn't high-tech ...
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As hacking victim's story spreads, Apple and Amazon tighten security
Christian Science Monitor
A local copy of the data would have prevented its loss). Don't link sensitive accounts to one another, as Honan did by connecting his Apple and Gmail accounts. And consider using additional security, such as Google's two-factor authentication, which requires ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Hacking Nightmare Comes True: Mat Honan's Story
Discovery News
Honan then noticed that somebody had hijacked his iCloud and Twitter accounts and deleted his Gmail identity, as he wrote in a Tumblr post. Racist, homophobic tweets streamed from his widely followed @mat username -- and the @gizmodo account he'd ...
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Business lessons learned in iCloud hack
CSO
Last Friday, hackers raised Cain after getting into Wired writer Mat Honan's Gmail, iCloud, Amazon.com and Twitter accounts. Access to Honan's iCloud account let the miscreants wipe all data from Honan's iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro. Hijacking his ...
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Apple Suspends Phone-Based Password Resets After Hack
PC Magazine
At issue is a hack that allowed an individual who identified himself as Phobia to gain access to Honan's accounts via an unsecured Gmail account and Amazon and Apple password reset loopholes that resulted in customer service representatives basically ...
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Google Tests Adding Gmail To Your Search Results
TechCrunch
For example, if you need to access your flight information while you're checking in, you don't need to open up Gmail — you can just search for "my flights" from Google, and you'll get a list of relevant information from your email appearing on the right side of ...
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TechCrunch
Apple, Amazon prove the "cloud" isn't safe
CBS News
That allowed the hackers to crack his Amazon account and then use that information to access his Apple account, which got them into his Gmail account and eventually his Twitter account (apparently what they had wanted all along). But his nonchalance was ...
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CBS News
Apple puts hold on policy that led to Wired writer's digital destruction
Examiner.com
A hack into Honan's Amazon.com account using the "exploit" above resulted in a hack into his AppleID account using Apple's security hole, and that led to hack into Honan's Gmail account, but via valid means, not through an exploit. From there, they took ...
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Examiner.com
How to use Gmail's two-factor authentication to secure email on your iPad
TabTimes
After being locked out of his accounts, losing everything in Gmail—and all of the photographs of his infant daughter—Honan eventually tracked down the hackers, and has begun the slow process of putting his digital life back together. But much of his data is ...
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Apple's Secure Password Advice No Help Against 'Epic Hack'
Wired News
When we talked about the incident at Wired yesterday, Mat said that if he could go back in time and change one thing, he would have added a second authentication factor to his Gmail account. He'd also have backed up his data somewhere else. If you work ...
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Amazon Boosts Security After Journalist Hack
PC Magazine
In a string of moves that are startlingly simple, Phobia managed to track down Honan's Gmail address and his @me.com Apple email address. All he needed was Honan's billing address and the last four digits of a credit card and he could take over Honan's ...
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Over-The-Phone AppleID Password Resets Will Not Be Allowed Until Apple ...
Cult of Mac
All of his devices were then remotely wiped with iCloud and his Twitter and Gmail were taken over. After Apple improves its over-the-phone security procedure, you will assumedly have to answer specific security questions you set beforehand. The issue with ...
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Apple and Amazon patch security flaws exposed by hack heard round the world
The Guardian (blog)
It obliterated eight years of Gmail messages. It culminated in the hijacking of his Twitter account, which was the hackers' goal in the first place – a coveted prize, according to a hacker whom Honan succeeded in contacting, due to its stylish three-letter handle, ...
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The Guardian (blog)

Blogs13 new results for Gmail
 
Got Gmail and Windows 8? Get Push email in the Mail app - Neowin
By Steven Parker
The Windows 8 Mail app already comes with an option to connect a Google account, but did you know that you can enable Push like features if you add it as an Exchange account instead?
Neowin
How to make sure your Gmail account is completely secure
By Sovereign Man
Password theft is one of the most common cyber-security threats in our current digital age. Both Yahoo! and LinkedIn have experienced mass security breaches recently which led to hundreds of thousands of user accounts being compromised ...
Sovereign Man: Offshore Business,...
BLACKFIVE: Firing Flares
By blackfive@gmail.com (Pundit Review Radio)
My Other Accounts. Digg: blackfive · Facebook: BlackFive.net · LinkedIn: matt.burden@gmail.com · MySpace: blogofwar · Technorati: blackfive · Twitter: Blackfive · TypePad: Blackfive · YouTube: blackfive · YouTube: unclejimbomadcity ...
BLACKFIVE
Notes For GMail: Sticky Notes In Your Email Threads [Chrome]
By Abdullah Saqib
Google Mail has set itself worthy as an email client for both personal and office environments. With customizations like backgrounds, themes and integrated.
AddictiveTips
Ge.tt brings its instant file sharing service to Gmail and Outlook ...
By Ricardo Bilton
Banking on speed and simplicity, file-sharing service Ge.tt is now calling your favorite email service home.
VentureBeat
First Picture from Mars Curiosity - blog*spot
By empireofdirt77@gmail.com
First Picture from Mars Curiosity. Found at Earthbound Misfit who wrote it came from George Takei's web page. Posted by empireofdirt77@gmail.com at 8:33 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels: Mars, Marvin ...
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Outlook, Microsoft 's Latest Development: A Competition For Gmail ...
By Youth Ki Awaaz Editorial Staff
Microsoft brings Outlook – the new and improved Hotmail: A look at its features and the prospective competition of Gmail.
Youth Ki Awaaz: Mouthpiece for the Youth
CENSORED NEWS: Supremacist pleads guilty in death threat trial in ...
By brendanorrell@gmail.com
CENSORED NEWS. Indigenous Peoples, Resistance and Human Rights brendanorrell@gmail.com .... Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez XColumn@gmail.com · http://drcintli.blogspot.com/. Posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at 6:40 PM ...
CENSORED NEWS
Grey Cardigan: Letters pages and the perils of pandering to ...
By Grey Cardigan
We are all taught at our first editor's knee that it's not always the big front page expose that puts you at risk of persecution by a larceny of lawyers,
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The Best Way to Protect All Your Online Passwords
By Robert Wenzel
For instance, if Gmail is set to send password resets to your Apple account, and your bank is sending requests to Gmail, then all the hacker needs to do to wreak havoc on your finances is steal your iTunes password (which is probably not very ...
EconomicPolicyJournal.com
[android-developers] Digest for android-developers@googlegroups ...
By Android
Parthi K <parthisoft13@gmail.com> Aug 08 07:18PM +0530. Hi pankajdev, just ... Mark Carter <mjc1904@gmail.com> Aug 08 05:23AM -0700. I know for ... Tobias Reich <tobiasreich82@gmail.com> Aug 08 04:44AM -0700. Okay, I will try this ...
Android
7 Tools You Should Have in Your Networking Swiss Army Knife ...
By mkwriter
It's free for 30 days, and then you can continue with either the free (for gmail only) or premium version. Contactually allows you to sort people into "buckets" – acquaintances, friends, colleagues, etc. Every day you're sent an email suggesting ...
Mrinalini Kamath copywriter &...
Use a Mobile Signature on Gmail @ jammer(six)
By michael
As a followup to my previous post about changing the e-mail signature on your iPhone, I wanted to point out that it's also possible to configure Gmail (or.
jammer(six)

Web3 new results for Gmail
 
Will Outlook.com force Gmail, Yahoo Mail to up their game ...
With Microsoft's new Outlook.com free email service getting so much attention, will Google and Yahoo need to update their own email offerings before they start ...
www.computerworld.com/.../Will_Outlook.com_force_Gmail...
5 Gmail Filters to Get You to Inbox Zero
Getting to Inbox Zero doesn't have to be impossible. Use these 5 Gmail filters to automate the process and get out of your inbox.
www.lifehack.org/.../5-gmail-filters-to-get-you-to-inbox-zero....
How To Enable 2-Factor Verification On Gmail (And Avoid Getting ...
An easy tip for Gmail users on how to avoiding getting hacked: two-factor verification.
www.readwriteweb.com/.../how-to-enable-2-factor-verificatio...


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