Gmail launched a new feature this morning designed to detect suspicious activity in your account and notify you when a suspicious login has occurred in your account.

Now, if it looks like something unusual is going on with your account, we’ll alert you by posting a warning message saying, “Warning: We believe your account was last accessed from…” along with the geographic region that we can best associate with the access.

To determine when to display this message, our automated system matches the relevant IP address, logged per the Gmail privacy policy, to a broad geographical location. While we 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.

If you see the warning and click to Show details and preferences, you’ll see something like the image below:

…which prompts you to change your password immediately if something seems amiss. If it’s a legitimate access—say you’re traveling—you can simply click click Dismiss and everything will go back to normal.

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Securing Your Paypal Account

PayPal has more than 8 million users in Canada accounting for more than $2 billio in paypal transactions.
If you are a regular PayPal user but are concerned about the integrity of your account, you may want to consider an extra layer of protection by using something called the PayPal security key.

The PayPal Security Key (as seen above) creates random temporary security code that help safeguard your PayPal account when you log in.
The security key token, which costs $5, is an electronic device or “token” designed that is carried on a key ring which creates a new security code for the user every 30 seconds. PayPal users with the security token must enter the temporary code along with their standard username and password in order to sign into their Paypal account.

Security Key Ordering and Set Up

Setup of the Paypal Security key is very simple. To order or setup your security key, users just log on to their PayPal account. Once logged in just click on “Edit Profile” to get to the “Account Information” screen. From their click on “Get the PayPal Security Key”.
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