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Google Chrome Will Now Alert You to Phishing Scams in Real Time

If Google had its way, everyone would carry around a physical security key to protect our mountains of sensitive and personally identifying data.

Alas, most of us do not, so the company has taken measures in recent years to prioritize security for users by baking them into Chrome.

With the rollout of Chrome 79 this week, the company announced its launching with new features focused on more secure browsing, two of which involve greater protection against phishing. Google maintains a blacklist of predatory sites as part of the Safe Browsing service thats used by browsers like Chrome and Firefox.

When you visit a website, Chrome checks it against a list stored on your computer of thousands of popular websites that are known to be safe, Patrick Nepper, Kiran C.

If the website is not on the safe-list, Chrome checks the URL with Google to find out if youre visiting a dangerous site.
Our analysis has shown that this results in a 30% increase in protections by warning users on malicious sites that are brand new.

For users Google Account passwords and passwords stored in Chromes password manager, Chrome will keep an eye on when those login credentials are entered into a potentially unsafe site.

In early October, it added a tool thatpreviously existed as a popular password extension, Password Checkup, until Google brought it to the Password Manager section of users Google Accounts.

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