Google develops new defense against phishing

Posted by bob on May 1, 2015 6:48 AM EDT
Networkworld; By Jeremy Kirk
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Google has developed a new extension for its Chrome browser that aims to stop people from falling prey to phishing sites. The free Password Alert extension stores an encrypted version of a person's password and warns if it is typed into a site that isn't a Google sign-in page, according to a blog post on Wednesday. It will then prompt a person to change their password.

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