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• Gmail detects potential recipient mistakes in group e-mails

  Google's Gmail webmail service can now detect if users have included a potentially incorrect recipient in an e-mail message they're sending to a group of people.

• Researcher refutes Microsoft's account of hijacked Hotmail passwords

  One researcher isn't buying Microsoft's and Google's explanation that hijacked Hotmail and Gmail passwords were obtained in a massive phishing attack.

• Compromised Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail accounts exploited in fake shopping scam

  In the wake of the posting in online forums of stolen account and password information for thousands of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo e-mail accounts, there's evidence of yet more abuse that entails attackers exploiting that information to hack into compromised accounts over the last few days to send spam aimed at stealing credit cards.

• Google confirms Gmail phishing attack

  Google confirmed today that passwords for its free Gmail online e-mail service had been harvested by hackers, but downplayed the phishing attack as involving just a "small number" of accounts.

• Gmail, Yahoo Mail join Hotmail; passwords exposed

  Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail were also targeted by a large-scale phishing attack, perhaps the same one that harvested at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, according to a report by the BBC.

• Report: Google accused of violating Italian law

  An Italian prosecutor has accused Google of violating Italian and European regulations in the way it handles its e-mail communications, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported Monday.

• Google gives Gmail a mobile push

  Can't wait to get back to your desk to check your Gmail messages? Well, now you may not have to wait.

• Google gets Gmail back on its feet after outage

  After a nearly two-hour outage, Google Inc. is getting its Gmail e-mail service back up and running this evening.

• Gmail outage caused by overloaded servers

  A worldwide outage of Google's Gmail online e-mail system on Tuesday was caused by a traffic jam on its servers, according to Google's official Gmail blog.

• Gmail suffers widespread outage

  Google's Gmail e-mail service is currently down for a majority of its tens of millions of users, the company acknowledged Tuesday afternoon.

• Gmail suffers widespread outage on Tuesday

  Google's Gmail e-mail service was down for most of its users worldwide for almost two hours, affecting not only individuals who use it for personal matters but also organizations and their employees who depend on it as their business e-mail system.

• 'Tasks' software graduates from Gmail Labs

  Google’s Gmail Labs has celebrated its first graduate, with the launch of the Tasks bar.

• Google revamps Gmail labels feature for organizing messages

  Google will roll out on Wednesday a series of changes to Gmail's labels, the feature designed to let people categorize and organize their e-mail messages in lieu of folders, which the company has resisted providing in its webmail service.

• Google urged to beef up Gmail security

  Google is weighing whether to encrypt its Web-based Gmail service by default, as suggested by a group of internationally prominent Internet security and legal experts as a way to mitigate privacy and security risks.

• Google to try more security on Gmail

  After prompting by a group of privacy advocates, Google said Tuesday that it plans to test a more secure version of its Gmail service to see if it is viable.