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Questions tagged [gmail]

Gmail is a free e-mail service provided by Google.

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Imitation Gmail account created - what's the threat?

My parents just received an email from Gmail: From: Gmail Team [mailto:mail-noreply@google.com] Sent: 14 September 2014 04:25 PM To: MyParents@gmail.com MyParents@gmail.com Subject: Your Gmail address, MyParents51@gmail.com, has been…
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Does a stolen phone mean losing access to Gmail?

If one steals someone's phone, he can easily use the password recovery mechanism to gain access to the person's Gmail account. Even if the victim had a alternative mail for a password recovery, the attacker can remove this mail address once he gains…
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I accidentally commited my a gmail TokenRepsonse-user file linked to my personal Gmail to internal source control

So, I work as a QA UI-Automation developer. We've got a package linked to gmail to pull and examine emails generated from our automated tests, and that email exists as a service. Each test at the moment has it's own inbox, so whenever we make a new…
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"No identity information" alert on gmail

Am I being hacked? Firefox is displaying this warning to me: This site does not supply identity information. Connection with this site is not totally safe because it contains unencrypted elements (such as images). Permissions: open popup…
That Brazilian Guy
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Why doesn't Google's "new sign-in from X" email notification contain the IP of the computer that connected to my Gmail account?

When someone connects to my Gmail account, I sometimes receive a "new sign-in from X" email notification from Google, which just indicates the OS and the timestamp of the connection. Why doesn't it indicate the IP of the device that was used to…
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Gmail Email id, dot(.) recognition

I keep on receiving email which is intend to be received by a gmail id similar to be mine, with no dots(.) in gmail id of other party. For example : my email id is john.grisham@gmail.com the inbox of above email ids, get emails intended to be…
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Strange google gmail activity logs

So I was reviewing the recent activity logs on my GMail account and came across an IPv6 address: United States (IL) (2607:fb90:1704:602f:4b7d:75c3:d50f:2fd4) I live in another state, so how can this be possible if the type was of mobile access.…
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Gmail and/or Flipkey-Tripadvisor account hacked, how to prevent in the future

I have a FlipKey account (property rentals site) that has been hacked and I'm hoping to understand how it happened and what I should do to prevent it from happening again. The hacker is able to get into the system even though the password has been…
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Why would someone use my email address in his Gmail registration?

I got an email from Google no-reply@accounts.google.com saying the following about the gmail address of an acquaintance that is supposedly connected to a non-gmail account I use: > The password for your Google Account -…
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Security concerns over ˆf_bisa label showing up on Gmail

Gmail started showing an unidentified label/folder ˆf_bisa. Doing a quick check, I see that this has only surfaced within the last couple of…
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Gmail shows my photo after I enter my emaill address (but before my password)

If I have a profile photo associated with a Google account, then when I enter my email address into GMail, but before I enter my password, the photo is shown. Is there a possible security breach there? For instance, if someone guesses at an email…
Mawg says reinstate Monica
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Why I am seeing an email address offending my name?

When I succeed the username recovery process, I saw a suspicious address i didn't know of. How was this added to my list of known accounts? (see below)
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Gmail Question - Bypassing alerts

Is it easy to access someone's gmail account without having that alert pop up to warn the owner? So, for example, with gmail, if you log in somewhere different from your usual login, it alerts you that such and such ip address wants to access your…
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A unknown IP logged into my gmail

Unknown login to my Gmail account: IP 192.168.12.54. I cannot remove this IP now. It also says chacha20_poly1305 uses x25519 key exchange mechanism.
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How to remove device from safe list?

This morning I logged to gmail from a strange computer. Google recognizes this and goes through three-factor autentication to check it's really myself. Now I can go to my account from my habitual computer and tell google it was really really myself,…
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