Gmail to warn users when emails arrive over unencrypted connections

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: Email security is getting better. Soon, you may see a warning in Gmail informing you that an email has arrived over an unencrypted connection.

 Viruses embedded emails coming from unencrypted connections are one of the reason of the increased  cyber frauds these days.

As per TechCrunch, Gmail already defaults to using HTTPS for the connections between your browser and its servers, but for the longest time, the standard practice for sending email between providers was to leave them unencrypted. 

If somebody managed to intercept those messages, it was pretty trivial to snoop on them.

Over the last few years (and especially after the Snowden leaks), Google and other email providers started to change this and today, 57 percent of messages that users on other email providers send to Gmail are encrypted (and 81 percent of outgoing messages from Gmail are, too). Gmail-to-Gmail traffic is always encrypted.

Given that there are still plenty of email servers that don’t support encryption, chances are you’ll see one or two of these warning labels in the next few months, said the report.