A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail

[LazyLion]

GMAIL USERS! - A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1433206

A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail

"A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas. Last week, Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, not just authentication. Users who did not turn it on now have a serious reason to do so, as Mike Perry, the reverse engineer from San Francisco who developed the tool, is planning to release it in two weeks."

To turn on the Security Encryption in your Gmail...

1) Open up your Gmail and sign in
2) Click on the Settings Link at the top right
3) On the First Tab (General) scroll down near the bottom - "Browser Connection"
4) Click the Radio Button "Always use https"
5) Click the button below to "Save Changes"
6) log out and log-in again
7) Check the Address bar to see that Gmail is now using https as the start of its address.

There you go!

(mods, you can move this later to a different section, I thought it important enough to put it here)

 

[Toxin]

Done.