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My unmonitored Gmail account gets compromised
on 09/05/2011 - like it?

Today seemed like just another day. Little did I know, in a span of about 20 minutes, the resulting set of events would be hugely embarrassing for me. I had barely woken up, when my phone started going bonkers with notifications coming from emails, chats & twitter replies. A glance at the notifications indicated that my email account had been compromised and phishing emails had been sent to every one in my contacts list.

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So, what went wrong? It all boils down to a culmination of the PlayStation Network hacking, some bad habits from my yesteryear and some nice features from Gmail which resulted in the phishing email to look like it came from my current domain account instead of the old Gmail account. Let’s have a look at each vector:

• PlayStation Network break-in
• Not monitoring my email account
• Password Reuse
• Send mail as and Reply-to set to my domain address

Read a complete account of what happened over at techie-buzz

Tags: gmail, phishing, spam

GMail Gets New Features, Presenting Gmail Labs
on 06/06/2008 - like it?

One of the all-time favourite web email service providers GMail added few extra features, 13 to be exact, via the GMail labs feature. You can enable/disable anyone or all of these features by heading over to Settings -> Labs.

Note that not all email accounts might have GMail Labs features enabled.

The features include

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Tags: email, experimental, features, gmail, labs, webmail

Dress up GMail with Skins – And Improve The Functionality using Better GMail
on 27/05/2008 - like it?

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Well, I’m pretty sure most of you are heavy GMail users. For me GMail is my primary mail service now, with my domain-based mail running on Google Apps. As good as a service GMail is I find certain things annoying – such as the the way it defaults to top posting instead of bottom posting! And of course the default interface is a bit bland. That’s where Better GMail comes in. Better GMail is a collection of Greasemonkey userscripts all rolled into 1 neat Firefox addon!

Some of the features Better GMail has include

• Support for themes
• Saved searches
• Keyboard macros
• HTML signatures
• Bottom posting instead of top posting
• Attachment icons indicating file types
• Unread mail count in tabs

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Tags: addons, better gmail, extensions, firefox, gmail, greasemonkey, scripts, themes, Web

Mr. Tony Chan Chun-chuen: Dear Friend,
on 08/05/2008 - like it?

My name is Tony Chan Chun-chuen, friend and close confidant to NinaWang
Kung, Who passed away on the 3rd of April 2007. I will save your time by
not boring you with all the details at thistime, Which has already been
disseminated by the international media during the Controversial dispute
that erupted between her and her late husband Relatives concerning the
huge estate he left behind.

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Tags: gmail, spam spam spam