was fooling with vpn settings and an email client running in the background accessed my account. minutes later, Google sent me this . . They are on top of it. Someone recently tried to use your password to sign in to your Google Account xxxx@gmail.com. This person was using an application such as an email client or mobile device. We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt: Friday, July 18, 2014 2:15:13 AM UTC IP Address: 93.117.81.255 Location: Timi?oara, Romania Do you think your bank would block access?
Give it a try and find out. My guess is that you would have to answer a security question and maybe an image puzzle, a hacker shouldn't be able to get around that.
Yeah Google is on top of everything, especially to track you, keep your data, invade the privacy of your home, put a pic of your street and home on the internet, run other businesses into the ground, infringe copyrights without prosecution, and eventually make slaves of all of us. Google is evil. You had a hack attempt because you were using gmail, a popular email platform targeted by all hackers including the best of them such as your dear National you know what ... not to mention Google itself. So why do you bother with gmail in the first place ? Seriously after something like that I would rethink using gmail. Besides you forget that if their security features are so darn good and sophisticated , one day they will work against you. You won't have access to whatever Google service you use because , there will be a little security question or code you will have forgotten. Ever tried to retrieve your gmail password ? A nightmare !! I guarantee you, with gullible people like you placing so much trust into Google, one day they will own the key to your home and you won't be able to get in .
I had the same thing happen to me a few months ago. I have to admit that I was pretty impressed when I saw they blocked access to my account.
Apart from the fact that Google allows anonymously everybody to create blogspots and to place defamatory, slanderous, criminal content about you, your family, your company and friends - hiding behind the "legal" argument Google is providing only the technical infrastructure for these anonymous, defamatory, slanderous, criminal "bloggers" (criminals). Invest 5 minutes and try out yourself. You want to create in 5 minutes a blog about the most hated person, company, EX friend, competitor, politician, tax collector? USE GOOGLE´S BLOGSPOT. THE IDEAL TOOL FOR ANONYMOUS DEFAMATION, SLANDER, LIBEL.
That's not specific to Google though. The situation you are presenting is inherently present in every online service that provides communication abilities to anonymous users, which is basically every blog, forum, and chat room that exists outside of Facebook and a handful of other social networks. If you want to critique online anonymity, that's fine but don't act like Google is evil because they allow users to post anonymously just like a million other sites do.
My Google Chrome updated earlier this week on Win 7. Since then I have noticed problems that seem to be immune to fixing todate. I have not yet tried all things but it seems to revolve around a fake un-uninstable Java update program. It is going to take me a long time to figure out precisely what is going on. However, in the process of research I have found out that my Win 7 version of Chrome is 32 bit. If that is true, then I wonder if ip6 allows a hijack of any 32 bit program using ip addresses akin to a tunnel. My thought is similar to HeartBleed - a huge security hole. Now I am not yet sure of what is going on, so I may be worrying prematurely. I have two basic questions: Is my reasoning sound? What browser is the best to use and why? Thanks in advance.
The recent Java version 65 is causing problems with multiple programs on my Win 7 computer. My broker technical support group has numerous calls to find out why before I phoned in. Interestingly enough, the Internet Explorer and Safari don't show the problems that Chrome does for me. Gee I wish I got paid for the amount of hours I spend fixing my windows machines! I have been unable to find a suitable older version of Java since that seems to be gone also. I guess I am hooped until this is sorted out or my broker phones back (she has her windows computer refusing updates until they are stable - smart gal). I will be using a 64 bit on my secure stuff going forward though. Has anyone had experience with Waterfox?
Google is "just" the most "popular" of the companies allowing these things to happen. It would be very easy for them to "regulate" this: introduce electronic identification tools. But hey, Google is a profit organization and NOT a regulator. We have all seen in 2008 what loosely regulated banks and other financial institutions do IF they are not strongly regulated: ABYSS. It will bring Google down, too. Just a matter of time.
The rapid release of Java version 67 seems to have fixed stuff. Good riddance Java version 65! Waterfox seems to work extremely well through all of this nonsense and has an enhanced cookie manager - Cool! I abandoned firefox years ago because of the perennial unfixed memory leak for third party applications but may switch with 64 bit waterfox in the future if it passes muster after much more testing (particular around garbage collection and memory leakage). Chrome is a concern for me because of 32 bits. Does Chrome come with a cookie manager plugin also? Does it work?