14 DAY TRIAL // Gmail was recently involved into a critical security flaw discovered by Pekto Petkov who said the Mountain View company has to patch it as soon as possible. In case you have not read the reports yet, the hole could allow an attacker to access the messages stored in the Gmail inbox as well as the address book and other details included in the account. The entire exploitation could be done using a Gmail filter which automatically redirects the messages to another account owned by the hacker. According to ZDNet Australia, Google has patched the flaw as a company spokesman sustained the users are now protected.
"We worked quickly to address the recently reported vulnerability, and we have rolled out a fix," the Google representative stated. "Google takes the security of our users' information very seriously."
This is not the first time when Gmail is the subject of the security alerts but the Mountain View company managed to patch the reported flaw in no time and no successful exploitation was reported. Google's representative sustained nobody tried to take advantage of the security hole so there is no reason to worry.
Since Gmail was first released in April 2004, it managed to capture users' interest because it offered an impressive amount of storage size which was never included in a web-based email before: 1 GB. After more than three years of improvements and hard work on it, Gmail is now described as the most efficient technology when it comes to spam filters because it is able to block almost any unsolicited message trying to reach your inbox.
Back in February, the Mountain View company updated Gmail to the private beta stage because since its release date, the Google mail technology has been available only by invitation without a free-to-register function.