Google's new Chrome extension warns if your login is compromised

Google'southward new Chrome extension warns if your login is compromised

The company is also extending new security features to websites that let Google sign-ins

Google wants to help keep users' accounts secure online, and it's providing two new tools to practice so.

The search behemothic said in a Feb fifth blog post it has launched a new Chrome extension, called Password Checkup, to assist protect your accounts from information breaches, by alarm you if your login credentials have been compromised.

Google also launched a new 'Cross Business relationship Protection' tool for websites that require you to log in with Google.

The company says information technology knows of over 4 billion credentials that are compromised, and the extension will inform you if your credentials lucifer any of the compromised logins.

The Mountain View-based visitor says it designed Password Checkup to be actionable. When a user receives an alert nigh compromised credentials, it doesn't just tell you; it prompts y'all to change your password.

Google says this is mostly the best manner to secure an unsafe account, and while other data, such as addresses and phone numbers, could be compromised in a breach, it focuses on warning about unsafe usernames and passwords.

Further, the visitor says information technology wants to avoid 'alarm fatigue' by but alarm users if all information necessary to access an business relationship has fallen into the easily of an attacker. For case, it'll warn you if both your current username and password appear in a breach, which poses the most meaning security chance.

Google Password Checkup

For those concerned near privacy, Google says not to worry. Privacy was at the middle of designing Password Checkup. The search giant says information technology created the extension so it couldn't see the information, but also made sure attackers couldn't abuse it to reveal unsafe usernames and passwords.

To learn more nigh the privacy aspect, you can read up on the inner workings on Password Checkup in this Google Blog.

Forth with Countersign Checkup, Google'due south new Cross Account Protection characteristic allows Google to send information nearly security events to sites that implement the service.

Google Cross Account Protection

Google says it only shares if the upshot happened and necessary information like whether someone hijacked your account or if yous are required to log in again considering of suspicious action. Further, this information is only shared with apps where you lot're logged in with Google.

In both cases, the services are relatively new, and Google will work to better and refine them over fourth dimension. Cross Business relationship Protection will start working with apps and sites that support it. As for the Password Checkup extension, it's available to download from the Chrome Spider web Store for free.

Source: Google