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spyro25 · Joined: 23 Nov 2004

a few days ago i noticed that another i.p was accessing my gmail account (you get a notification at the bottom if this is the case)

i did a whois search on the IP and the IP belongs to something called the KRNIC. according to the whois details:

'KRNIC is not an ISP but a National Internet Registry similar to APNIC.
The following is organization information that is using the IPv4 address.'

its someone at SK broadband in seoul. we use hanaro as our internet provider. i got a number of email address from the whois and have emailed them - but why is someone from SK broadband in seoul accessing my gmail account....?

has anyone else got a similar message? are we really being spied on?

Micelf · Joined: 14 Jul 2009

Ummmmm....ummmmmm...sketch.
I'll definitely start keeping an eye on my account activity from now on.

sugarkane59 · Joined: 10 Jun 2009 Location: Seoul

I looked at my gmail account out of curiosity and low and behold, there were 2 different IP addresses from the same telephone company - weird. Why would they want to hack into my account? Needless to say, I've changed my password. But to be honest with you, the password hint question had been changed - how they did that I don't know!

Micelf · Joined: 14 Jul 2009

Just out of curiosity, do you always log in from the same location?

Maybe this has somthing to do with that whole thing where the north was hacking into the governments system via unsuspecting private parties... Confused

You did hear about that, right?

spyro25 · Joined: 23 Nov 2004

i figured it out - not actually as serious as i thought - it was a firefox app that was logged in....

/idiot

Socks · Joined: 15 May 2008 Location: somewhere in here...

Oh NO!

I saw the IP address at the bottom of my Gmail -

I checked it

and LO and BEHOLD! it was my own IP

That can only mean one thing! I am hacking into my own gmail...

what should I do?

p.s. - It amuses me that someone with a Daves username - spyro25 thinks that someone is spying on him...

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible
by Kim Zetter, Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2004/06/64043

Learn to Encrypt Your Internet Communications
Surveillance Self-Defense Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://ssd.eff.org/wire/protect/encrypt

Packet Sniffing
http://www.tech-faq.com/packet-sniffer.shtml

Yesterday · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:32 pm Post subject:

still probably more secure than the USA -

Carnivore was a system implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that was designed to monitor email and electronic communications. It used a customizable packet sniffer that can monitor all of a target user's Internet traffic. Carnivore was implemented during the Clinton administration with the approval of the Attorney General.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28software%29

NarusInsight, a supercomputer system which is used by the NSA and other bodies to perform mass surveillance and monitoring of citizens' and corporations' Internet communications in real-time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NarusInsight

latest version of NarusInsight Intercept Suite (NIS) is "the industry's only network traffic intelligence system that supports real-time precision targeting, capturing and reconstruction of webmail traffic... including Google Gmail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Gawab Mail

gangpae · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Location: Busan

Hear me now, believe me later. Google is the CIA.

mateomiguel · Joined: 16 May 2005

Its customary for an ISP to use dynamic IP addressing, which means they'll give you a different IP address sometimes when you turn your computer on, or when they reset their system, or just randomly refresh things. Rarely, if ever, will a home or small business user have the same IP address all the time.

So, if its 2 IP addresses from your ISP accessing your gmail account, chances are its you yesterday, and you today.

winterfall · Joined: 21 May 2009

spyro25 · Joined: 23 Nov 2004