two tech tips: new gmail vulnerability found, plus how to track email sent to you and identify it via its IP address

Posted by Alan Childress

I ran across two techy items worth passing along. 

1. This site, Online Tech Tips (HatTip Electronic Ephermera), tells you how to figure out who sent you that email via their IP address, at least the original location. 

2.  If you use Gmail, you may have opened yourself to a malicious code that forwards some ordinary mail you received, on to the bad guys.  Easy to search for the vulnerability and stop it.  Article here at bedford.org, via HT Discourse.net.  The latter says:

Odds are high that you’re fine. But to confirm it, here’s what you do after logging in to Gmail:

… click on the ’settings’ tab in the upper right of the screen. Then check both the ‘Filters’ and the ‘Forwarding and POP’ sections.

Examine what’s listed there to make sure there’s no forwarding instruction you didn’t put there yourself.