Thursday, February 28, 2013

Virus Bulletin Backs Gmail Security Claims, Says Yahoo, Outlook.com Have …

<p>Virus Bulletin has put out a report saying that its own data supports recent security claims made by Google about Gmail.</p><p>Last week, Google put out a blog post claiming to have substantially reduced the amount of compromised accounts. The company said hit has reduced the number by 99.7% since 2011.</p><p>Google security engineer Mike Hearn wrote:</p><p>Every time you sign in to Google, whether via your web browser once a month or an email program that checks for new mail every five minutes, our system performs a complex risk analysis to determine how likely it is that the sign-in really comes from you. In fact, there are more than 120 variables that can factor into how a decision is made.</p><p><a href="http://www.webpronews.com/virus-bulletin-backs-gmail-security-claims-says-yahoo-outlook-com-have-problems-2013-02">Keep reading...</a></p>

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