No this isn't spam, just a question for the network experts.  GMail has a "who accessed your account" function.  I get a notice 3 days ago that

"Egypt" accessed my account.  Google provides an IP address

 

Unknown Egypt (41.130.68.248) Nov 9 (3 days ago)

 

I run whois and get a result of "Ahmed Ibrahim Ali" as the owner.

 

Run a google search...

http://www.google.com.kw/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=7c9ebb4e18afe3b6&hl=en

http://www.link.net/English/Linkcorp/About/Our%20History/

http://whois.afrinic.net/cgi-bin/whois?searchtext=LINK

http://egypedia.com/e.directory/tag/202-27686500/

 

Any ideas? And wtf?

 

Just hope it wasn't this guy:

http://www.globaljihad.net/view_page.asp?id=1729

 

I see someone using amazon servers also accessed my account.  Obviously I also changed every password I have.

 

 

Thanks - was not aware of this feature.

 

Unfortunately - it SEEMS to be useless for me as it only shows like the last 10 activities, which reaches back ONE day.  Have no idea why they would do that and not let you see months of data.

Might want to look into enabling 2-factor authentication

 

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1056283&topic=1056284

Would that prevent unRAID or any other service from sending emails?  I think so...but looks like I could set an "application specific" password.

Would that prevent unRAID or any other service from sending emails?  I think so...but looks like I could set an "application specific" password.

 

I use 2-factor authentication on my account and just use an application specific password for my unraid box. It works fine.

Thanks for the info.  Looks like I'll switch to 2-step authentication as well.  This just makes me wonder how often I've been "accessed" by unknown sources prior to this.

Can you setup just a application specific password and not 2-step?

Can you setup just a application specific password and not 2-step?

 

application specific passwords are a feature only when 2-step is enabled.