Google expands Chrome’s anti-phishing tools as hackers’ obsession with credentials continues
Google says it will now warn users when they are potentially visiting a phishing page in the Chrome browser, a plan that coincides with a wider company effort to alert people when they are being targeted by state-sponsored cyberattacks and other threats to their digital identity. In a blog post Tuesday Google said it would expand “predictive phishing protection” in the Chrome browser. The goal is to check in real-time if scammers are leveraging websites, advertisements, chat apps or other channels to try to steal Chrome users’ credentials. The effort marks an improvement from the previous option, in Google’s Safe Browsing mode, which relied on a block list that Google updated every 30 minutes. It’s also the latest example of a technology company trying to mitigate the risks associated with usernames and passwords as means of validating a user’s identity. While biometric authentication has become common on smartphones, Microsoft also has […]
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