Google Gmail vulnerabilities blamed on users and Phishing

There were reports of security vulnerabilities in Google’s Gmail and Google blamed users and Phishing, basically those who fell for the bogus e-mail scam, users duped by phishing messages is the main flaw here.

Chris Evans who is the Google security engineer said in a recent post explained a little about the alleged security vulnerability in Gmail and Google have looked into this pretty hard and found that there was no evidence of Gmail vulnerability. Evans recommends that Google users only enter Gmail sign-in credentials to Web addresses starting with https://www.google.com/accounts and that they “never click-through any warnings your browser may raise about certificates.”

However GeekCondition.com blog said in its post that Brandon Partridge the Web developer did warn that such attackers could force an unsuspecting Gmail user to create a malicious message filter without his or her knowledge. Personally this is true and it does happen. Could this really all be down to gullible users who fall for a phishing scams? Read the full article here.