As stated in many posts these days human has been considered to be the entry point to compromise the system. There are many cases regarding #Phishing technique. Recently an extension has been made available for chrome users that can prevent phishing technique.
Phishing is the technique of setting up a completely fake web page more like the original and make the victim to visit the page and make him / her to login and thereby getting the credentials of the users.Phishing is very deadly when sites such as online banking has been made.
Search Engine giant has launched a new Password Alert Chrome extension that will alert the user when the user visits the fake page and attempt to login.
The advantage of using this extension is that
1. It prevents the user from re-using the Google account password on other websites.
2. It protects the user if the user typed the same Google password on a non-Google website by generating a warning.
According to reports, nearly two percent of e-mail messages transmitted are phishing mails. The extension once installed it stored a scrambled version of the user's Google account password in an encrypted cryptographic format
The extension after installing prompts the user to login again even if it is logged in already and once logged in it will start monitoring.
The source code for the extension is available on GitHub. The extension can be downloaded from Chrome Web store from here.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to be misused.
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