Emails still have their role in our daily lives and there are many malicious users who try to take advantage of certain weaknesses in emails. To protect us from these malicious emails,
Google has included new security alerts in Gmail for Android
.
One of the most known problems is
phishing
, which consists of sending an exact copy of an email from a company requesting verification of a password or phone number. When the user enters their data, they are stolen, suffering all the consequences that it entails.
New security alerts in Gmail for Android.
A few months ago,
Gmail started reporting whether the received emails had support for TLS encryption and which ones did not
. This helped us identify those emails considered "not safe" because they can be intercepted by a third user.
In the latest Gmail update, they also
inform us if the sender's address is verified and is secure
. Gmail will use
SPF
(Sender Policy Framework) and
DKIM
(Domain
Code
Identifier for Email) to verify the email address, if it finds an irregularity it will mark that email with an icon of an interrogation, which indicates that the identity of the sender has could be supplanted and can be phising.
Another of the new measures taken by Gmail to make emails more secure is to
analyze the links in the emails
. To analyze them use the well-known Safe Browsing system, which we have surely seen more than once in our browser.
Safe Browsing displays a striking red message warning us that we are visiting an attacking website
and this type of alert is what will be included in the email if Safe Browsing detects any link that takes us to pages with malware, spyware, viruses, etc. .
To finish I must clarify that
these new altera security included by Gmail are somewhat beneficial, but they are not something that offers us total security
. The most important thing is to use common sense and always try to verify where we are introducing our personal data or sensitive information.
