Gmail will soon alert you if you receive unencrypted emails

Note that she used two sets of quotation marks at the start of it – apparently, doing this will cover up your actual email address and make it look like the email you’re sending is coming directly from Google’s own security team. Gmail’s security engineering lead Elie Bursztein and Licolas Lidzborski from the Anti Fraud and Abuse research mentioned in their official blog post about the findings in a report that was commissioned by Google in collaboration with Universities of MI and IL. Over the same period the proportion of G-mail encrypted with TLS sent from Gmail to non-Gmail recipients increased from 60 percent to 80 percent.

TLS does have a few limitations – emails sent using TLS aren’t encrypted before they leave your computer, while they’re being processed by the email servers that pass them along, or after they reach their final server.

Servers are also a problem. It’s shockingly easy to do, as a new Gmail bug reported by independent security researcher Yan Zhu reveals.

Essentially DMARC is a system created to detect spoof emails by allowing companies to determine if an email is authorised and the content of the email has not been modified. This fits neatly into Gmail’s secure thinking, as it will offer a more robust Gmail service with fewer opportunities for tampering or the bad stuff landing inside inboxes.

Unfortunately for those concerned by internet security, i.e. nearly everyone, Google apparently does not think the bug is a big deal. Phishing and email scams are not something new and have been around the corner since long however, Google’s new feature would warn users of unsecure connections thus reducing the chances of being scammed and phished. If the email is intercepted, anyone could read its content.

Email encryption is getting better but certain countries are deliberately preventing SSL requests from initiating, undermining industry efforts, according to a new report from Google.

The warnings will be rolled out to all users over the next couple of months.