Chrome 79 has better password protection and real-time phishing warnings

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Chrome 79 has better password protection and real-time phishing warnings

A separate extension is not longer needed to keep your passwords safe

What's new? Google released a stable build of Chrome 79 on Tuesday, which included several improvements. Many of the new features focus on end-user security for password and phishing protection. It also made it more easy to see which account you are synced with if you use multiple profiles.

Previously, Google had a separate Password Checkup browser extension that warned users if they were reusing passwords on different websites. Now, Chrome will be able to do this natively. It will also let users know if their password has been compromised as part of a data breach. The browser will run these checks as you enter your credentials into websites. The password protection feature can be accessed through Chrome's sync settings.

For users concerned about Google having access to their passwords, the company assures that it does not collect or even see credentials. "Private set intersection with blinding," as the developers call it, allows the feature to use multiple layers of encryption and strongly hashed and encrypted copies of the passwords to find matches.

Another security feature in Chrome 79 is real-time phishing protection. Google has found that scammers running phishing websites frequently change domains to try to outsmart users and Google's spider-bots. So Chrome implements a feature that references a list of phishing websites that the search giant updates every 30 minutes. Google claims that it should improve the browser's phishing detection by about 30 percent.

"[Our] Safe Browsing list has been capturing an increasing number of phishing sites," said Senior



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