Who is accessing your Gmail account?

#1

Post by duck » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 12:04 PM UTC

Who is accessing your Gmail account?
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Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

#2

Post by maigret » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 1:13 PM UTC

At least the Gmail access overview is a nice feature, far from being universal for all webmail providers. Every provider should have it.

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

#3

Post by acangiano » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 1:17 PM UTC

maigret wrote: post #2

At least the Gmail access overview is a nice feature, far from being universal for all webmail providers. Every provider should have it.

It's a very good tool. Without it, I wouldn't even know about this possible intrusion.

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

#4

Post by snitko » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 1:30 PM UTC

The site is down. Summary, anyone?

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

#5

Post by ottbot » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 1:36 PM UTC

Interesting, I had a look at the tool after reading this and have activity from the same IP address mentioned in the article.

Update: I have also Etacts with enabled access. I had completely forgotten about them.

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

#6

Post by acangiano » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 1:36 PM UTC

snitko wrote: post #4

The site is down. Summary, anyone?

It should be back up and running soon. You'd think 1GB of RAM would be enough to handle a few thousand hits to serve a static page.

EDIT: The server is still having issues.

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

#7

Post by acangiano » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 1:38 PM UTC

ottbot wrote: post #5

Interesting, I had a look at the tool after reading this and have activity from the same IP address mentioned in the article. Update: I have also Etacts with enabled access. I had completely forgotten about them.

I'm afraid this is common. We better find out what the heck is going on with that IP. I've enquired with Slicehost about it, and we'll see if they get back to us.

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

#8

Post by jonknee » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 1:40 PM UTC

If you're concerned enough about email privacy that you're going to wipe your computers for keyloggers, why in the world would you ever grant a SaaS access? That's just asking for trouble.

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

#9

Post by yanw » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 1:45 PM UTC

maigret wrote: post #2

At least the Gmail access overview is a nice feature, far from being universal for all webmail providers. Every provider should have it.

They've also recently added suspicious activity alerts depending of geographic regions which I though was a nice touch: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/detecting-suspicious-a...

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

#10

Post by patio11 » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 1:46 PM UTC

acangiano wrote: post #6

snitko wrote: post #4

The site is down. Summary, anyone?

It should be back up and running soon. You'd think 1GB of RAM would be enough to handle a few thousand hits to serve a static page. EDIT: The server is still having issues.

Hello, fellow Apache user! You may wish to look into Nginx. My Japanese toilet seat practically has enough memory on it to serve all my business needs.

One of these days I have to migrate all of my Apache-hosted Wordpress blogs to Nginx.