Collaborate Disseminate
I am trying to access my Gmail account. I have the correct password. When I click on login it asks for a confirmation code sent to my recovery email. Hopefully, the recovery email does not have this strange procedure and I could log in to … Continue reading Understanding Risk-based authentication (Google case) [closed]
Who you are, where you are and how you experience online life are all major factors in whether you’re targeted for phishing and malware campaigns on Gmail, a joint Stanford University-Google study concluded. The examination of 1.2 billion email-based phishing and malware attacks against Gmail users found that the risk of getting hit correlated at least in some significant measure to age, country, frequency of Gmail usage and past breach exposure. Users in the U.S. were most likely to be targeted, attracting 42% of the attacks that researchers tracked. U.K. users were the subject of 10% of attacks, while people in Japan came in third, with 5%. Higher age groups also encountered higher odds of being targeted. For instance, the 55 to 64 age group was 1.64 times more likely to experience an attack compared to 18- to 24-year-olds. Google publicized the study Tuesday, saying it teamed with Stanford researchers […]
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I receive pdfs that could be malicious. Is it safe to view them within Gmail? What about DocHub? Is that the same as ‘opening’ them? (FYI I use Firefox as a browser)
Continue reading Can I safely view a malicious PDF in gmail or dochub? [duplicate]
In a couple of forums I belong to, my Gmail address is displaying as my user name. I’ve confirmed my preferred Google account name is correctly entered in Gmail settings/accounts&imports/send mail as. Nowhere in my Google account is my… Continue reading Gmail address displaying as user name
Digital-based KYCs (Know Your Customer checks) are widespread these days, and given the number of reported data breaches, it is not unreasonable to assume that there’s a non-zero risk that photos of one’s ID used has been obtained by an un… Continue reading Is it possible to circumvent the 2FA protection on Gmail using a stolen photo id?
I use gmail and want to find the original sent date of an email they sent someone else 1/2 years ago and have forwarded me just now. Is there any way to find this i.e encrypted in message id or something like that?
I use gmail and want to find the original sent date of an email they sent someone else 1/2 years ago and have forwarded me just now. Is there any way to find this i.e encrypted in message id or something like that?
I just had a weird experience that I am trying to figure out. I received a suspicious sign-in notification from google on my gmail account. They had my correct password. This isn’t that surprising, the password was old and probably breache… Continue reading Spooky Suspicious Sign-In From My Town
I just had a weird experience that I am trying to figure out. I received a suspicious sign-in notification from google on my gmail account. They had my correct password. This isn’t that surprising, the password was old and probably breache… Continue reading Spooky Suspicious Sign-In From My Town
I’ve just sent google a privacy request to permanently remove all information associated with my now deleted gmail accounts from their servers in accordance with UK GDPR law. How will they respond? I used an alias on the 2 accounts (where … Continue reading How does google respond to GDPR privacy requests? [closed]