Google adds feature to show if your Gmail was accessed from another country

Filed under: Security, Google

Google has just added a new feature to Gmail: If you log on from a certain country, and a short while later, someone logs on from a different country, you will then get a security alert like the one above. It tells you that someone has tried to access your account from another country. It also tells you which country it was, and allows you to quickly change your password.

In the US, it seems to search down to the state level. Therefore, even if the hacker knows that a user is based in the US and uses a US proxy to mask their actual location, the alert may still pop up if the proxy is located in a state other than where the user normally logs on. Google didn't say this in so many words, but the current "activity on this account" screen shows activity listed by state (so, consider this an educated guess).

Google adds feature to show if your Gmail was accessed from another country originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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