Phishing attacks can be hard to spot for users who are likely to miss the red flags and these attacks can end up compromising their online presence, and may even result in the theft of their personal and private information. It goes without saying that nobody will mind being protected against phishing attacks which is why Google’s new extension is likely going to be taken up by many people.
The extension is called Password Alert and it’s main purpose is to protect your Google account from phishing attacks. It’s a free and open-source Chrome extension that will protect Google and Google Apps for Work accounts.
Keep in mind though that this extension will only protect your Google Account and won’t be of any use on another site that’s masquerading as Facebook or some other social network.
To combat that Google is improving its Safe Browsing technology in the Chrome browser to warn people against potentially dangerous sites that might be up just to steal their information.
Basically if you come across a site that’s imitating accounts.google.com to steal your login credentials, Password Alert for Chrome will instantly warn you about the danger. The extension simply checks the page’s HTML to identify whether or not it’s an authentic Google page.
Password Alert is a free extension for the Chrome browser, available for download through the Chrome Web Store.
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