New Delhi | Jagran Tech Desk: In order to help you keep safe online, Google Chrome has come up with a new feature to warn you if your username or password has been compromised in a data breach on some site or app, that is when you type them into a website, confirmed Google and Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said on Wednesday.
The new safety feature will suggest that you change them everywhere they were used. The technology was first introduced earlier this year as the Password Checkup extension. In October, it became a part of the password checkup in your Google account and now it is evolved to browse the web in Chrome. You can control it in settings under 'Sync and Google Services.'
The team is also working to enhance phishing protections to be real-time on desktop to alert you when visiting malicious sites. If you are signed in to Chrome and have Sync enabled, a new feature (predictive phishing protection) will warn you if you enter your Google Account password into a site that is suspected of phishing.
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"The Google Safe Browsing maintains an ever-growing list of unsafe sites on the web and shares this information with webmasters, or other browsers, to make the web more secure. It refreshes every 30 minutes, protecting four billion devices every day," Google said in a release, claiming the feature is an expansion to what already exists since 2017.
Now Chrome will also secure accounts of those users who have not enabled sync after login. "Hundreds of millions more users will now benefit from the new warnings," it added.
Many of the above technologies have been developed at the Google Safety Engineering Centre (GSEC) in Munich.
Posted By: James Kuanal