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If you’re worried about email security, here is a step by step guide to help you check and determine if your Gmail account has been hacked or compromised in any way. Step 1: Find the ‘Last Account Activity’ Section Your Inbox At the bottom of your Gmail inbox there is a ‘Last Account Activity’ section. Click on ‘details’ to launch the full blown monitor. Step 2: See who has accessed your Gmail account recently Next, what you’ll see is a table of the most recent activity from your Gmail account. It shows you * How it was accessed (Browser/mobile etc) * Where exactly the IP address is (So you can do some further digging) * When it was accessed Step 3: Understand the IP addresses – Has your Gmail really been hacked? If you see IP addresses from different countries, don’t be too quick to panic. If you use any 3rd party services which hook-up to your Gmail account, they will almost certainly show up in your activity log. To do you own investigation, you can use DomainTools to...

Microsoft will no longer shore up security weaknesses in computers using Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows 2000 operating systems, the company has revealed. The software giant announced Tuesday that it will stop supporting computers using those older operating systems as of July 13th. Such desktop PCs and servers are still widely used in corporate networks globally. Qualys estimates 50% of Windows XP machines used by businesses are SP2 machines. Qualys manages computer upgrades for over 4,000 corporations, government agencies and large organizations worldwide, as well as small- and medium-sized businesses. The service packs contain major security and reliability upgrades. "No new security patches for Windows XP SP2 means that users will not get updates to the core operating system and its components," says Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek. "The overall effect will be that the machine becomes increasingly susceptible to attacks from malicious software." Infected PCs i...

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