{"id":5378,"date":"2013-01-28T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T00:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2013-01-27T20:57:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T09:57:43","slug":"google-reporting-suspicious-activity-after-im-login","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/google-reporting-suspicious-activity-after-im-login\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Reporting Suspicious Activity After IM+ Login"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tip for those of you trying out IM+ for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>IM+ is a great app to sign you into multiple instant messenger services simultaneously with just one piece of software. It&#8217;ll connect to Skype. Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, ICQ and Google Talk to name but a few. However, you may receive a notification from Google if you attempt to login to Google Talk as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n[Name],<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\">Someone recently tried to use an application to sign in to your Google Account &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mingers.phd@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">[<\/a>Google Account]. We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><br \/>\nFriday, 25 January 2013 20:55:58 o&#8217;clock UTC<br \/>\nIP Address: 184.107.43.156<br \/>\nLocation: Saint-Eustache, QC, Canada<\/p>\n<p>If you do not recognise this sign-in attempt, someone else might be trying to access your account. You should sign in to your account and reset your password immediately. Find out how at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts?p=reset_pw\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts?p=reset_pw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If this was you, and you want to give this application access to your account, complete the troubleshooting steps listed at<a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/mail?p=client_login\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/support.google.com\/mail?p=client_login<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: This email address cannot accept replies.<\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you receive something like this then you needn&#8217;t be alarmed as this is one of the gateways IM+ uses to connect to Google Talk on your behalf. Of course, the IP address is subject to change but if you get this e-mail from Google shortly after a login attempt then you shouldn&#8217;t have much to worry about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tip for those of you trying out IM+ for the first time. IM+ is a great app to sign you into multiple instant messenger services simultaneously with just one piece of software. It&#8217;ll connect to Skype. Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, ICQ and Google Talk to name but a few. However, you may &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/google-reporting-suspicious-activity-after-im-login\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,854,67,852,853,18,855],"tags":[2268,2348,2345,2020,2319],"class_list":["post-5378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-google-talk","category-instant-messaging","category-msn","category-skype-instant-messaging","category-technology","category-yahoo-chat","tag-google","tag-google-talk","tag-icq","tag-im","tag-skype","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}