New App To Find Out Your Gmail Account's Value
Gmail
users will now be able to get a fair idea of how precious their accounts might
be to malicious hackers and law enforcement agencies based on new apps released
by researchers from two universities. According to the Sydney Morning Herald,
Cloudsweeper, which is a software developed at University of Illinois at Chicago,
can scan emails to find any mention of passwords or password resets, and could
tell the user how much a Gmail account is worth to hackers based on the black
market price for the type of details found in the email data.
The report said that
Cloudsweeper could also redact or encrypt the passwords it finds, possibly
faster than deleting old emails, with the users having to return to the
application to decrypt them if they were ever needed again. Although the web
application crashed shortly after its launch this week, it is expected to be up
again shortly, the report added.
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