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Back in February Mark wrote an article, Are You Sure Your Email Isnt Being Hacked.
It provided step by step instructions on how to setup “electronic tripwire” in your email.
When someone opens it the account owner gets alerted.
This time I want to go over one new Gmail feature.
It watches your account and displays a notification when someone else logs into your account.
When you’re in Gmail go all the way down to the bottom of the page.
If you have logged in just now you should see it right there.
As you have probably noticed there is also a ‘Details’ link.
using web app, via POP3, etc.)
Here are 3 things you should pay attention to:
1.
Or at least have identical first two sets of numbers (ex.
Access key in- This column displays the way your account was accessed.
For instance if you read your email from net net app (Firefox, IE, Safari etc.)
but one of the entries showing POP access, there is a good chance your account is compromised.3.
Concurrent Sessions- If your mail is currently being accessed from another location, you’ll see it here.
This won’t affect your current session.
