Keeping passwords safe is very important to avoid problems that affect our privacy. On many occasions, vulnerabilities arise that cause our keys to be exposed on the network. This could be exploited by hackers to gain access to our accounts. Now, anticipating this problem, detecting it and therefore changing it as soon as possible, is vital. In this sense, the most used browsers have more and more functions that help us. In this article we echo the latest addition to Google Chrome so that passwords are safe .
Chrome improves password reset capabilities
Today’s major browsers offer the ability to store passwords. This is very useful to avoid having to enter the access codes every time we go to log in. A way to save time and also not have to remember all the credentials for each case.
Now, those same browsers usually have the feature of showing us if those passwords have been filtered. A way to alert users to take action and not keep the same password. To do this, they have databases of filtered passwords and compare them with the hash values of the keys stored by users in the browser. In case of coincidence it would show it as insecure.
If this happens, it shows a recommendation to the user to reset that password. This process must be done manually. That is, the user has to enter the site for which the password was saved and use the function to reset the password.
Google Chrome now emulates Apple, which has the ability to directly redirect users to the path to reset the password instead of the web of that service. From the Chrome 86 version this possibility will be available.
With this change, Google Chrome will show a button next to the compromised passwords to load the password reset web. In case that service allows to go directly to the path to change the password, it will be available. If it is not, it takes you to the home page and, manually, users will have to find a way to reset that password.
Now available in trial versions
As we have mentioned, this new feature that will facilitate having secure passwords in case they are leaked, will come to Chrome 86. However, we can already use it in the Chrome Canary and Chrome Beta versions.
To do this we have to run chrome: // flags / # well-known-change-password in the browser and enable the feature. By default it is currently disabled.
In short, Google Chrome goes one step further to keep user passwords safe. In this case it is an improvement to be able to change the keys in case there may be suspicions that they have been leaked.
We leave you a list with some open source password managers. An interesting selection that we can take into account.