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Gmail Detects and Warns You If Someone Else Is Using Your Account
Gmail launched a new feature this morning designed to detect suspicious activity in your account and notify you when a suspicious login has occurred in your account.
Now, if it looks like something unusual is going on with your account, we'll alert you by posting a warning message saying, "Warning: We believe your account was last accessed from…" along with the geographic region that we can best associate with the access.
To determine when to display this message, our automated system matches the relevant IP address, logged per the Gmail privacy policy, to a broad geographical location. While we don't have the capability to determine the specific location from which an account is accessed, a login appearing to come from one country and occurring a few hours after a login from another country may trigger an alert.
Heh. Only if you did it by country would that work for me. By geographical area within this country? NSM. :)
Also, that should be interesting for things like b'rawk.
Gmail launched a new feature this morning designed to detect suspicious activity in your account and notify you when a suspicious login has occurred in your account.
Doesn't work too well, considering that my Gmail spammed my whole address book just this morning, and I got no warning message.
In that vein, does anyone have recommendations for good programs for a Mac (running Tiger; 10.4.11) to detect and kill spyware, etc.? I've operated on the Lazy Mac User theory of "Eh, no one writes viruses for Macs, so I don't need to worry about it." But maybe I should be a little mindful.
So, I'm finally planning on getting a TiVo. I went to the TiVo site and they're talking about TiVo Premiere. Does anyone know anything about it? I'm not really an early adopter—I mean, I'm just now looking at getting a TiVo. Does anyone know if Premiere is some wonderful leap forward?
Steph,
how did the gmail thing happen? was it a web-based intrusion? Did someone guess your password?
how did the gmail thing happen? was it a web-based intrusion? Did someone guess your password?
I have no idea. There is no record of it in my Sent mail folder, so I don't know if someone spoofed my e-mail address. But if they did, they also had access to my entire address book, plus I got all the ones that bounced due to outdated addresses, etc.
I'm befuddled.
Is your password guessable?
make sure you change your password (likely already done) and put in an address in the account info that gmail can send your password to in case you forget it.
also, if there are security questions, don't base them on actual, factual information about yourself. Create a fake persona and answer the questions as part of this fake persona.
Ah, this morning I got an alert from Gmail saying it looks like my account was accessed from China yesterday.
No shit, Gmail.
