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Google adds Gmail's 'suspicious activity' monitoring to your Google Dashboard
It's very cool, and it works really well. I have multiple friends that have caught hackers (usually from China!) just moments after they've gained access to their private email accounts. With Dashboard now enabled -- and thus every single Google-owned website -- you will have unprecedented security from identity theft attempts,World of Warcraft password stealing, generic hack attempts... and so on!
The only problem is that you need to visit the Google Dashboard to receive the warnings. You won't get a warning by simply browsing YouTube or Picassa -- you'll only see the 'suspicious activity' dialog box if you visit the Dashboard (or Gmail).
Still, it's better than nothing! You should check your Dashboard and marvel at just how much information you've given Google too...
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Subscribe to comments216Jul 1st 2010 10:31AM
"The only problem is that you need to visit the Google Dashboard to receive the warnings."
That sucks. Now if they include this feature on every Google connected website they have a hit on their hands. I visit my iGoogle page all day long, and yet last week when I venture into my gmail page I get a Red Banner alerting me to a strange IP address accessing my account.
SonnyjimbaJul 1st 2010 11:17AM
Or even better, integrate it into Chrome + android. The google accounts are in use over both already so it wouldn't really be that hard.
So for example in Chrome, a little yellow bar, like the ones when installing themes, would come down and say "warning: "Your account may have been compromised: activity detected in x at xx:xx"
Sebastian AnthonyJul 1st 2010 12:27PM
That WOULD be cool! That's the direction Firefox is going, with the integrated 'identity manager' -- though it would definitely make sense to have some way for websites to communicate with Chrome...