Google announced today that it would switch Gmail users from a default http to an encrypted https for all services associated with its online email service. Although the company has allowed users to ...

Gmail gets EE2E as it turns 21. The greatest April Fool’s Day joke that never was has to have taken place on April 1, 2004. It was then that Google, without a hint of irony, launched what was to ...

Google is fighting back against NSA spying. Today, Google announced that it will ensure that the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) system is always in place, all the time. Previously, HTTPS, ...

Update, Dec. 07, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 05, has been updated with examples of the kind of cyber-attacks used by hackers and scammers to lock you out of your Gmail account. A Dec.

Most of the over 1.5 billion people who use Gmail treat Google's webmail service like a reliable old clunker that needs little if any regular maintenance. But what if you could tweak a few settings to ...