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Gmail Security Tweak
Posted by MattG at Dec 3rd, 2008 in Life Online
I was going through some notes I’d made a little while back last night and came across a little golden nugget that was given to me by fellow marketer Simon Hodgkinson..
Simon’s a pretty smart marketer with a fairly impressive array of products, which you can check out on his Hodgkinson Publishing site, as well as his own book
Simon was checking his Gmail account while we were sat at the bar and mentioned another marketer (who’s name I can’t remember) who had his gmail account broken in to after accessing it on an unsecured network at a hotel, and subsequantly had many of his websites, servers and other business assets attacked!
The problem is that gmail is accessed via http instead of https (secure encrypted) as a default, so if you use Gmail I recommend you take a moment and go in to your “Settings” (from the top right hands side of the page when you’re logged in) and then scroll down the page to the bottom to find the option to change to logon via https as a default.
gmail https login option
It only takes a minute or so to do and could save you a lot of agro down the line sometime… 
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Thanks for the info Matt. When I sign up for Gmail, I will do exactly that. It’s a good thing that yahoo is using secured login.
Thanks Matt,
That’s really good to know and simple to fix.
So many of us, who travel and use open networks, don’t realize how vulnerable we are to this kind of attack. Thanks again for bringing this information up.
Joe
Great… I just did this tweak 2 days ago as it seemed “reasonable” to use https… but your tip emphsized its importance
Matt,
Its a useful tip. I did know that there is such feature in Gmail. I will now use it to avoid any bad experiences.
Well, bless your socks for that one! Really good to know.
Thanks!
Matt,
Thank you SOOOOO much for this valuable information – it’s hard for those of us who are honest to even imagine breaking into someone else’s email account or anything else that doesn’t belong to us. *sigh* But we don’t live in an ideal world, so we have to learn all the ways to protect ourselves.
By the way, the same thing goes for your cPanel logins – if you always use the https login and :2083 instead of :2082 then you are more secure there, too.
Have joyous holidays,
Donna
Hey Matt, Great info on the Gmail, I have had a problem with Yahoo
but never Gmail. This little tweek will help insure that when I am on
the road. Thanks, Timothy Millar “The Leprechaun”
I was surprised to find that neither option was selected.
Thanks for the great suggestion.
Hi Matt, thanks for the great tip.
Rick
Hey Matt, these are the kinds of things I love short and sweet. Thanks for the heads up.
Cheers Matt.
I took the liberty of passing this post around (not that I want everyone to know why I am so smart LOL)
Hi Matt,
Found this nugget of information from a friend over at better networker. As you can see, I use gmail and I’m going right now to change it. Thanks so much for the tip!
Michelle
Thanks Matt, You are right!
Access Gmail over HTTPS and stop getting hacked!
This is a very helpful Tipp also for New User!
Thanks a lot for such important info.
I’m gonna do it for sure right now, never know when something bad can happen.
Regards…
Great information here! I’m going to do it right now, actually.
This isn’t really needed if you only access Gmail from home or other trusted location.
Hi Andrew,
true, but as it only takes a minute to make the change, I reckon it’s worth making sure it’s done just in case you do need it in the future and forget…
cheers,
Matt
Thanks for this bit of advice. I’m going to check this out tonight.
Helene
Thanks for the tip Matt, much appreciated.
Hi Matt
Thanks for sharing this information. Going to change it right now
Cheers
Paul C
Hi Matt,
Thanks a lot for informing us about this.
I knew about the https security thing, but i didn’t
realize it has on google too until now.
You really did save the day
Till then,
Mike
Great tiip, thank you Matt.
Marsha