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Topic: "Sign In From A Less Secure App" |
Ben Elder
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La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2016 8:33 am |
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Google/Gmail has recently notified me of three separate attempts (each different countries, none of them the US) to log into my account "from a less secure app."
What does "less secure app" mean? Does someone have my password and Google just doesn't like the IP address so they're blocking the would-be intruder, or...?
I only sign in from a Gmail page (not from something like Mail on my Macs.)
I changed my password (pushpullfatbackcuttailSKHLeGrandeD10yeahright) so the hackers will be rebuffed from the get-go? |
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Dave Potter
From:
Texas
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Posted 24 Jul 2016 9:54 am
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Is that actually a password you're using somewhere now? I ask because you're making it public here.
FWIW, using real words and terms for passwords isn't the most secure way to do it. Something random that uses upper/lower case letters, numbers and symbols is better - something like wy6%*3OfnC as a random example. |
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2016 2:06 pm
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It's my ultra-facetious SGF- jargon fake Password. Not in use ever.
And my handle is neither BE or Obese E. Question's serious though.
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"Gopher, Everett?" |
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Dave Potter
From:
Texas
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Posted 24 Jul 2016 3:26 pm
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| Yeah, OK. Didn't really think so, but some strange stuff shows up here from time to time. |
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