Phishing is a technique used by hackers in order to steal sensitive information such as passwords and credit card number. The technique is to make the victim believe that it is for a trusted site to retrieve his personal information.
Faced with the proliferation of these attacks, Google has just released a new extension for its Chrome browser to alert users of this hacking technique.
The extension is called Password Alert and is activated when the user entered his password on a company website that the login form is located on the accounts.google.com subdomain. The extension does not store this password but creates a fingerprint. The company explains:
Whenever you log in to your Google Account, Password Alert temporarily accesses your password and record a digital fingerprint with salting Chrome on your local storage.
Once saved footprint, Password Alert is able to determine if the same password is entered on another website. Moreover, it is stated that the extension checks the HTML for each login page to unmask false ones.
If a problem is detected, an interface is interposed to prompt the user to change the password immediately to prevent a possible phishing.
For this time Password Alert is available only in Google Chrome. Google offers its tool as open source on GitHub so that developers can seize it for other browsers.
Download Password Extension Alert
Faced with the proliferation of these attacks, Google has just released a new extension for its Chrome browser to alert users of this hacking technique.
The extension is called Password Alert and is activated when the user entered his password on a company website that the login form is located on the accounts.google.com subdomain. The extension does not store this password but creates a fingerprint. The company explains:
Whenever you log in to your Google Account, Password Alert temporarily accesses your password and record a digital fingerprint with salting Chrome on your local storage.
Once saved footprint, Password Alert is able to determine if the same password is entered on another website. Moreover, it is stated that the extension checks the HTML for each login page to unmask false ones.
If a problem is detected, an interface is interposed to prompt the user to change the password immediately to prevent a possible phishing.
For this time Password Alert is available only in Google Chrome. Google offers its tool as open source on GitHub so that developers can seize it for other browsers.
Download Password Extension Alert
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