Washington: Google has launched a new Chrome add-on that stops users from recycling their Google password on other sites.
The new extension, Password Alert, will warn users whenever they are about to use their Google password again on a site that is not a Google sign-in page.
Password Alert is now available in the Chrome Web Store .
The extension is developed to prevent the users from phishing attacks. Many users tend to fall for phishing attacks that act as if to show them a Google log-in page that is meant to steal their passwords. Also, using the same password over and over again, hackers could gain access to virtually all of a user's online accounts through a single attack.
Although, two-step authentication prevents some of those hacks and Google's Security Key secures users when preventing phishing but this tools is almost more about teaching users not to recycle their passwords.
Eran Feigenbaum, Google's Director of Security for Google Apps for Work said that Google for Work admins has set this tool in way that they receive an alert when a user had become a victim of a phishing attack. They can then prompt these users to reset their passwords.
Google is open-sourcing this tool in order to enable developers to bring it to other browsers.
