Sunday, March 28, 2010

Gmail Alert for Detecting suspicious account activity

Gmail Team have introduced another interesting feature to send security alerts in case of suspicious account activity.
"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," engineering director Pavni Diwanji explained in a blog post


"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."

It was not found working for me when i tested this feature :(

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