Hi All, Google has issued big red banners (really subtle) to some Gmail users that they may be victims of cyber snooping by hackers based in China.
Google is using automated warnings to alert users of its GMAIL messaging service about wide spread attempts to access personal mail accounts from Internet addresses in China. The warnings may indicate wholesale spying by the Chinese government a year after the Google Aurora attacks or simply random attacks. Victims include one leading privacy activist. Warnings appeared when users logged onto Gmail, encountering a red banner reading* "Your account was recently accessed from China*," and providing a list of IP addresses used to access the account. Users were then encouraged to change their password immediately. Based on Twitter posts, there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the accounts that were accessed, though one target is a prominent privacy rights activist in the UK who has spoken out against the Chinese government's censorship of its citizens. *How it came to know?* Their automated system matches the relevant IP address, logged per the Gmail privacy policy, to a broad geographical location. While they don't have the capability to determine the specific location from which an account is accessed, a login appearing to come from one country and occurring a few hours after a login from another country may trigger an alert," they commented. *For More Information*: http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/09/24/5171480-gmail-users-alerted-when-accounts-accessed-from-china -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nforceit" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nforceit?hl=en-GB.
