YOUR Google Chrome has a hidden feature that will help you get hacked in the future.
This is one of the most productive tactics to prevent hackers from breaking into your accounts, not just google, but everything you use online.
That’s it, Chrome comes with a built-in password manager.
It’s like a database of all your usernames and passwords for each and every service you use.
Each time you log in to a service, you can save this password.
You will need to override the setting to Remember this password when you are presented with the option when you log in.
And when you sign in again, Chrome will enter the password for you.
This solves one of the biggest security issues: reused passwords.
We reuse passwords because it’s hard not to forget several confusing passwords.
But hackers can use it, reuse passwords to access a multitude of accounts.
Google recently warned that billions of passwords have been hacked and can be easily obtained online.
Hackers will take those giant databases of passwords and verify them on your accounts.
If passwords are reused, a singles attack is enough to break into many accounts.
But with a password manager, you can use another password for the service.
And since you don’t want to, you can have very confusing passwords that are hard for hackers to guess.
That’s it: the password manager also has a tool called Password Checking.
It features a warning every time you log in to an online page “one of more than four billion usernames and passwords” that have been compromised.
“Since our launch, more than 650,000 people have participated in our first experience,” Google’s Jennifer Pullman explained in 2019.
“In the first month alone, we scanned 21 million usernames and passwords and reported more than 316,000 as – 1. 5% of the connections scanned through the extension. “
It is evident that there is a massive threat for whose username and passwords of other sites have been hacked.
It is vital to replace your login details to stay safe.
But even passwords downloaded online with a related username can put you at risk.
If it’s a very undeniable password, chances are someone else is making it too, and they may have hacked it themselves.
Hackers buy massive lists of those compromised passwords on many other sites because other people reuse them.
Therefore, hackers are much more likely to access an account by forcing a long list of hacked “known” passwords than by searching for random letters or numbers.
“Hijackers try to log into sites on the Internet with any and all identifiers exposed through a third-party breach,” Pullman said.
“If you use strong passwords for all your accounts, that threat disappears. “
Just open the browser and click on the right corner most sensitive to the settings.
Then click on the key symbol for the password options.
Here you will see a segment called “Saved Passwords” and it will involve all the Internet sites for which you have stored your login information.
Then click “Verify Passwords” and Chrome will analyze yours and let you know if any of them have been compromised.
It will tell you if any of your passwords are weak.
If this is the case, you can click on a link to the passwords.
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