What if you thought Gmail is the most secured email service on Earth? There are vulnerabilities in Google's online service that has come to fore. A group of advocates including 38 computer scientists, law professors and security experts prompted that Gmail is unsecured as the users are not using encrypted HTTPS(Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) connection to log into their email accounts. When a user composes email,  documents, spreadsheets, presentations and calendar plans, the sensitive content is transferred to Google's servers insecurely, enabling unauthorized access to information using right tool.  Prompted by security experts Google announced that it plans to test a secure version of its Gmail service to ensure that the service becomes impregnable.
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In my previous article I have already discussed about how to use the Online Feed Aggregators to view the password protected Feed with username and password. Now the next thing that should come to your mind is how do they actually fair in maintaining the security of your account. To understand that I studied and tested a number of online feed aggregators on the known protocols such as HTTP basic, HTTP digest, Integrated Windows and HTTPS SSL protection. So let us know about these protocols first. Then it will be better to understand what suits you more. Full article (453 words) »