Ray! Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 An interesting article for those of you who are gmail users: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27863/?p1=blogs. Cheers Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefMagnet Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 How dumb would you have to be to fall for that? I'm not sold on that story. My gmail account won't let me log in from a computer I haven't used before unless I verify at the same time with an SMS code so I would guess this means with this set up the bad guys would need two separate codes - one to retrieve the password and then one to log on to the account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray! Posted May 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 I don't use gmail, so I have no idea how it works, but many do, so thought I'd post this up as a notice of shit that may happen. Cheers Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefMagnet Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 They only introduced the whole verification for a new computer thing a little while ago. Maybe this was the reason they did it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cravenhaven Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 I think the big problem here is if you lose your smartphone (or someone nicks it). You probably have it synching your mail with your gmail account, and now they have your gmail username, AND your phone for the SMS part of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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