Gmail to alert users to suspicious activity | Security - CNET News

Gmail to alert users to suspicious activity | Security - CNET News: "Google launched a new feature in Gmail on Wednesday that will alert users when the system detects suspicious activity that might indicate the account has been compromised.

Gmail already displays information at the bottom of the in-box showing the time of the last activity on the account and whether it's still open in another location. But people often don't think to check that information, Will Cathcart, a Gmail product manager, said in an interview on Wednesday.

So Google is taking the extra step of displaying a warning to users in the form of a big banner that says 'warning your acct was accessed from...' and which specifies a geographic region where the account was accessed when unusual activity was detected."