Do you use Gmail for your email service? If so, you might be interested to know that Google is vamping up security with Gmail, especially if you also use Google’s Internet browser, Chrome.
What Google Is Doing
Have you ever looked at the website address in the address bar of your browser and noticed an “http://” or an “https://”? Well, the difference between the two is a big one. The second one indicates that it’s more secure than the former one. By default, Gmail connects with https to protect your email. However, it used to be that if someone were to type in “http://gmail.com,” you could still connect without that extra s. Now, however, that’s not possible when using Chrome.
So what does that mean? Basically, hackers will no longer be able hijack your email session and read your emails. This means that if you use Gmail for your email, it would highly benefit you to also use Chrome. This protection is not available currently on other web browsers (a smart move on Google’s part to make their own services more secure with their web browser).
Security with Google
One of Google’s main goals with their web-browsing programs is to provide security while surfing the web, so users aren’t worrying about being hacked and having personal information stolen. How many times have you gotten an email from someone saying their email was hacked so if you got any weird messages to just ignore them? Or for that matter, how many times have you gotten weird emails that you knew weren’t really sent by the sender? With Gmail, you can feel secure knowing you’re protected.