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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With the launch of service pack-2, Microsoft claims Windows Vista is the safest and most reliable OS that the software giant has ever developed. In Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner words, it's also the most secured OS in the planet including Linux and Apple Leopard. He claims Windows 7 to be the safest and most secured OS on the planet today. Micosoft used it's Vista experience to leverage Windows 7. Microsoft had to break through a lot of compatibility issues to lock down user account controls. Well the question is that, will Windows 7 be the most secured operating system ever? Let' find out.
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When every one is progressing towards a better and a secure cyber atmosphere, Windows astoundingly continues their trend and lags behind. If we remember last January's assessments, at least 5% of the PCs were safe from any vulnerabilities. I used to count me as one while using Windows XP. But the recent stats show me no hope now. According to Secunia APS, 98.1% of the PCs on which its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility was installed during the past week sport one or more applications that have security updates available for downloading.

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Mac users are relatively secure from the growing threats of intruders and hackers. But that doesn't mean that you can just sit back and relax with your gates wide open. You never know, a single virus or a human mistake can ruin your Christmas party big time. Especially because its festival time, I know that you will be busy in buying different gifts from online shopping forums which need a lot of sensitive information to be sent. WHat if someone tracks them down all and exploits them. Don't worry. I am here to tell you 10 good tips which will keep you away from those cyber- thieves.

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1. How can you hack GMail account?
2. How can you protect your GMail account from hackers?
Hackers at Defcon demonstrated a tool to hack into GMail accounts by snooping unencrypted data (man-in-the-middle attack) with cookie which Google GMail uses for everything other than login by default.

Last week Google introduced the ability to optionally encrypt any transmission to / from GMail and not just the login sequence. Previously GMail used to encrypt the login sequence only. All other data was transmitted unencrypted over the wire making such hacking possible. Every email, every article that you are reading on your GMail account is transmitted unencrypted over the web. Full article (599 words) »

Extendable (by plugins, …) Static Analysis tools like FindBugs can enhance the security of your Java applications (web as well as standalone or client-servers applications) in several significant ways.

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