Google is boosting up the security game with more features to its password protection that will let users identify whether they are provide best or not.
Sradha Subash A
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Google always keeps updating its search engine to make it more secure. With Chrome's newest version 88, Google is boosting up the security game with more features to its password protection that will let users identify whether they are providing best security practices or not.
As stated in blog post by Google, Google Chrome password manager can already save a user's credentials for multiple platforms and can prompt us to update if our password is found weak. New update will allow users to check, identify and reset weak passwords easily. To access this feature, go to Chrome settings, there users can fix multiple passwords that are found to be weak.
This feature, the ability to detect whether a password have been part of any information leakage in the past or not, will be the biggest feature of Chrome.
As mentioned above, Chrome 88 will permit users to verify the strength of saved passwords. Usually, a user takes password that are easy to remember but they are unfortunately easy to guess. In such cases, Chrome can point out which ones might turn into security liabilities. Also, according to the report by Google, Chrome on Android will soon come up with a "Touch-to-fill" feature, which is an iOS-like biometric authentication for secure password filling.
These new updates are based on many improvements from last year which altogether have contributed to our online safety and made webbrowsing even more easier.
Google blog post mentions that every week, Chrome's Safety Check is used 14 million times and that it saw "37 percent reduction in compromised credentials stored in Chrome after the improvements launched in 2020".
Chrome 88 has started boosting up but it might take some time to reach users. Particularly, Android might be a bit late to the party as some password management features will take time to arrive.