Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:39:59 -0600
Reply-To: miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@GMAIL.COM>
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From: miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: fryday .. NVC gmail stuff
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Nice tip. Thanks!
Miguel
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Roger Whittaker<rogerwhitt1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Protect your Gmail account by accessing the activity
> report<http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/helpdesk/?p=945>
>
> - *Date*: August 31st, 2009
> - *Author*: William Jones
> - *Category*: support<http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/helpdesk/?cat=17>
> - *Tags:* Google
> Gmail<http://search.techrepublic.com.com/search/Google+Gmail.html>,
> E-mail Providers<http://search.techrepublic.com.com/search/E-mail+Providers.html>,
> Cloud Computing<http://search.techrepublic.com.com/search/Cloud+Computing.html>,
> Internet <http://search.techrepublic.com.com/search/Internet.html>, William
> Jones <http://search.techrepublic.com.com/search/William+Jones.html>
> -
>
> 3 comment(s)<http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/helpdesk/?p=945&tag=nl.e023#comments>
>
> *Web-based e-mail is convenient, but what happens if you forgot to log out
> of a public computer? Gmail users have an easy solution.*
>
> —————————————————————————————————-
>
> Last week, I got panicked call from a friend. She had forgotten to log out
> of her web e-mail account before leaving the study carrel she was using. My
> friend is in graduate school, and the library where she goes to work gets a
> lot of traffic. She was appropriately concerned about the security of her
> account and asked me if there was anything she could do to close that
> session remotely. Luckily, since she’s a Gmail user, I could offer her a
> solution.
>
> Once a user logs in, he or she can find data about the “Last account
> activity” at the bottom of every Gmail page below the storage usage stats.
> Displayed there will be the last network address that accessed the Gmail
> account, or an indication of how long the current session has lasted. There
> is also a link labeled “Details.” That link is where we’re headed.
>
> By clicking on the “Details” link, a Gmail user can see a table of recent
> activity in her account. This table will indicate when and from where the
> account has been accessed, and will display if there are multiple sessions
> active simultaneously. To close every other session except their current
> web-based one, a user can click the button labeled “Sign out all other
> sessions.” This was what I directed my friend to do.
>
> The recent activity report can serve as a useful security-auditing tool in
> other ways. Examining the data for suspicious network addresses and account
> activity can alert a user that the security of her Gmail account has been
> breached. More information on how to use the session activity report can be
> found on Google’s help
> pages<http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&answer=45938>
> .
>
>
> --
> roger w
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