More and more personal information that Internet browsers store inside. All of this makes it easier for the user to navigate, in addition to improving their experience with the program. This is something that is extended to the most popular proposals such as Chrome, Firefox, or Edge , among others.
This is where data as sensitive as the access credentials to the Internet platforms and services that we regularly access come into play. Of course, among these data we find the corresponding access passwords that we usually use in these environments. But of course, these elements are precisely the ones that attackers look for the most to be able to get hold of them. Hence the security measures that these programs usually implement to take care of them.
Chrome continues to improve password security
To give us an idea, if we focus on Google Chrome, its password manager already includes a password checking function. What it does is allow us to know if the password we are using has been leaked to the Internet by a hack. And it is that this type of fact is increasingly common, since there are many websites that are hacked and millions of passwords are exposed.
In this way, in the event that any of our credentials is exposed, the search giant’s own program alerts us. It is clear that the next step we should take is to change it immediately. But this does not always happen on our part, so now Google wants to go one step further. We tell you all this because now the firm is working in a more bearable way to help us change the personal password that has been leaked.
For all this, the new function uses a method that tries to make it easier for users to change the filtered password that is recommended. First of all, as you know, most websites have a URL that they use to direct us to it in case we want to change the password on that specific platform . This is something common in most of the best known websites.
This is how Chrome will make it easier for us to change leaked passwords
Now, as we mentioned, the Mountain View firm is now working on a system that will make things easier for us. In this way, if Chrome detects that a personal password has been hacked, by clicking on a button that appears, it will take us to the exact URL to update it. That is, the browser itself will redirect us to the web address where we can change it directly. This eliminates the process of having to search for it ourselves.
In the event that a website is not compatible with the aforementioned function , Google Chrome redirects us to the main page of the platform in question. At the same time, it is important to know that this feature is currently in the form of a flag in the Canary version of the browser. It is therefore expected that this will be something that reaches the whole world in the next month of October.
