Here’s one more way of staying safe Online. Google has introduced the Password Checkup Chrome extension as a new tool in the war against hackers.
What the Password to Checkup Chrome extension does is to quickly check against a a data base of around 4 billion credentials that are “unsafe”, whenever you sign in to a site. If the username & password you used is “unsafe”, it will then trigger a warning.
Among other things, Password Checkup Chrome extension has been designed in such a way as to only alert a user when all of the information necessary to access his account has fallen into the hands of an attacker.
Says Google….
We only generate an alert when both your current username and password appear in a breach, as that poses the greatest risk.
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