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Preventing Phishing Scams - Gmail and Google accounts

After Shashi’s excellent article on the recent phishing attacks that occurred here at Network Solutions, we thought it a good idea to keep our readers aware of other relevant attacks that might come across their inboxes. I recently came across this article on Digital Inspiration about some of Google’s recent phishing incidents were customers had their gmail accounts hijacked.

Google engineers have posted a detailed explanation saying that the recent domain hijacking related incidents were due to phishing and not because of any security flaws in the Gmail software.

According to Google, attackers had sent e-mail messages to web domain owners asking them to visit fraudulent websites, such as “google-hosts.com”, with the purpose of collection their Google login credentials. Once they had access to the Google mail accounts, they would set up filters designed to forward email conversations with web domain providers.

They have some great advice on preventing such a thing from happening to your own Gmail/Google account. Since many people have moved to using web mail instead of mail clients like Outlook, this has become the latest target to make you an unwilling participant in spam spiders and other sorts of scams.

Things like email and web domains are core to us doing business on the Internet and are the most damaging when hijacked. We will continue to bring you relevant stories and advice to help you keep these scams from doing damage to your business.

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