Google Announces "Password Alert" To Protect Against Phishing Attacks

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Google has announced Password Alert, a free, open-source Chrome extension that protects your Google Accounts from phishing attacks (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/protect-your-google-account-with.html). Once you've installed it, Password Alert will show a warning if you type your Google password into a site that isn't a Google sign-in page. This protects you from phishing attacks and also encourages you to use different passwords for different sites, a security best practice. Once you've installed and initialized Password Alert, Chrome will remember a "scrambled" version of your Google Account password. It only remembers this information for security purposes and doesn't share it with anyone. If you type your password into a site that isn't a Google sign-in page, an alert will tell you that you're at risk of being phished so you can update your password and protect yourself.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/04/29/2131250/google-announces-password-alert-to-protect-against-phishing-attacks