Chris Evans, Google's Information Security Engineer and Tech Lead, has rejected the Gmail vulnerability rumored widely that would cause domain thieves recently. After investigation, it is found that the cause was a rather simple phishing scheme that fooled domain's owners to visit fake websites such as "google-hosts.com" and collected usernames/passwords of Gmail accounts. After gaining the user credentials, the attacker set up mail filters specifically designed to forward messages from web domain providers and consequently gain the controls of the domains. There ...

Some users have reported that they found a new feature integrated into Gmail's settings which allows them to change default Gmail interface to over 30 different themes. Google itself announced they will be rolling out the feature to all users in the next couple of days. Before users had to depend on Greasemonkey scripts or Firefox plugins that could bring some more pleasure to the standard Gmail theme. Gmail's help center provides an interesting piece about the new themes: In some cases, ...