Google launched a new feature in Gmail on Wednesday that will alert users as soon as the system detects suspicious activity that may indicate the account has been compromised.
Will Cathcart, a Gmail product manager, said in an interview on Wednesday, Gmail before now displays information at the bottom of the in-box showing the time of the last activity on the account and whether it is still open in another location. But people frequently don't think to check that information.
So Google is taking the further step of displaying a warning to users in the form of a big banner that says "warning your acct was accessed from..." also which specifies a geographic region where the account was accessed when odd activity was detected.
"For instance, if you always log in from the same country and all of a sudden there is a log in from halfway around the world" that is suspicious, Will Cathcart said. Or, if the system detects that one particular IP address is accessing several accounts and changing passwords for them, that would trigger warnings for affected accounts, he added.
After receiving the warning banner, users can click a "details" link to get additional information, such as where the last access points were and users can also change their password from that window.
Will Cathcart, a Gmail product manager, said in an interview on Wednesday, Gmail before now displays information at the bottom of the in-box showing the time of the last activity on the account and whether it is still open in another location. But people frequently don't think to check that information.
So Google is taking the further step of displaying a warning to users in the form of a big banner that says "warning your acct was accessed from..." also which specifies a geographic region where the account was accessed when odd activity was detected.
"For instance, if you always log in from the same country and all of a sudden there is a log in from halfway around the world" that is suspicious, Will Cathcart said. Or, if the system detects that one particular IP address is accessing several accounts and changing passwords for them, that would trigger warnings for affected accounts, he added.
After receiving the warning banner, users can click a "details" link to get additional information, such as where the last access points were and users can also change their password from that window.
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