Gmail Increases Email Security With Phishing Protection

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Phishing is still one of the biggest security threats that users face on the Internet. It basically means that criminals are sending emails to users that make them believe they are coming from an email sender that they can trust. Most phishing emails pose as emails from financial organizations like PayPal or banks and ask the user to enter user data which will then be “phished” and used to remove money from the user's account. There are other forms of phishing including the very popular account phishing where attackers try to take over accounts on sites like eBay or games like World of Warcraft.
A new widget has been recently added to Gmail labs that increases email security by offering phishing protection for the two services PayPal and eBay. Emails send by these two services are authenticated by the widget and an authentication icon is displayed in the Gmail interface so that the user can see at first glance that the emails are coming from the original source.
 
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