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Google’s New ‘Password Alert’ Extension Another Step To Protect Against Phishing Attempts

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Mohd Sohail
May 2, 2015

Google has taken another step toward protecting users from fishing attempts by releasing a new Google Chrome extension ‘Password Alert’. The extension protects users from being gmail account overused with other non-google websites. As soon as it detects that the password has been exposed to any non-google website/service, it prompts to reset password immediately.
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