{"id":644276,"date":"2013-02-27T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T16:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=219047"},"modified":"2013-02-27T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T16:49:53","slug":"virus-bulletin-backs-gmail-security-claims-says-yahoo-outlook-com-have-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644276","title":{"rendered":"Virus Bulletin Backs Gmail Security Claims, Says Yahoo, Outlook.com Have Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virus Bulletin has put out a report<\/a> saying that its own data supports recent security claims made by Google<\/a> about Gmail.<\/p>\n

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>\n

Google security engineer Mike Hearn wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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>\n

If a sign-in is deemed suspicious or risky for some reason\u2014maybe it\u2019s coming from a country oceans away from your last sign-in\u2014we ask some simple questions about your account. For example, we may ask for the phone number associated with your account, or for the answer to your security question. These questions are normally hard for a hijacker to solve, but are easy for the real owner. Using security measures like these, we’ve dramatically reduced the number of compromised accounts by 99.7 percent since the peak of these hijacking attempts in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to Virus Bulletin this “could be the case,” but “Yahoo!, and to a lesser extent Hotmail (now Outlook.com), has a real problem.” <\/p>\n

Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted a link to the report, calling it “some external validation that Google has radically reduced email spam from hijacked Gmail accounts”. <\/p>\n