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 | Google Launched a new tool to alert users when the system detects suspicious activity that might indicate the account has been compromised. | Gmail already displays information at the bottom of the in-box showing the time of the last activity on the account and whether it's still open in another location. But most people don't remember or know that its there. Google is taking an extra step to tell users about their account if its being taken. The system will be in the form of a big banner that says "warning your acct was accessed from..." and which specifies a geographic region where the account was accessed when unusual activity was detected. "For example, if you always log in from the same country and all of a sudden there is a log in from halfway around the world" that is suspicious, Cathcart said. Or, if the system detects that one particular IP address is accessing numerous accounts and changing passwords for them, that would trigger warnings for affected accounts, he said. After receiving the warning banner, users can click a "details" link to get more information, such as where the last access points were. Users can change their password from that window.  |
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