Chrome: Google strengthens the safety of its password manager

On Desktop, Google wants to simplify access to recorded passwords in Chrome. To do this, the company has revised the interface of the page dedicated to them. The purpose of the operation is to allow you to access them more easily to consult them or modify certain parameters. The icing on the cake, you will soon no longer need to navigate through the Chrome menus to consult your access trousseau. Chrome will allow you to create a shortcut of access to passwords directly on the desktop of your computer.

Google: how to use the password manager ?

Google incorporates a password manager in Chrome so that you can connect to your different accounts safely. If you have never used this function, Futura explains everything to you to know about it.

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For Google, given the growing number of threats that can be encountered on the Internet in recent years, it was necessary to offer effective protection to passwords informed on the web pages open in chrome. Thus, these can be administered by a manager who not only allows them to save them for future uses, but also to check whether these have been compromised.

If you have never been interested in this practical Google tool, Futura shows you how to use it.
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How to activate the password manager on Chrome ?

If you want to automatically back up the passwords you enter on the web pages open in Chrome, then you will have to activate the password manager by accessing your Google account.

To do this, first launch Chrome, then click on the icon icon “Personalize and control Google Chrome” in the upper right corner of the window window . A menu appears, click on “Settings”.

Go to chrome settings. © Google Inc.

Once in the settings, locate the “Persons” section, then click on “Manage your Google account”.

Click on “Manage your Google account”. © Google Inc.

A new tab opens, go over it. In the left part of the screen, click “Security”.

Click on “Security”. © Google Inc.

Now scroll the page down and find the “Connect to other sites” section. Then click on “password manager”.

Go to the password manager. © Google Inc.

Once on the page entitled “Password manager”, click on the gear icon.

Go to password manager settings. © Google Inc.

Now move the two sliders to the right. In this way, Google will offer you to keep in memory the identifiers and passwords which you will use on the websites open in Chrome and Android, but also to automatically connect the next times you will come back to it.

Activate the functions “Offer to save passwords” and “automatic connection”. © Google Inc.

How to save passwords ?

From now on, when you try to identify yourself on a site open in Chrome, a small window appears at the top of your browser browser and ask you if you want to save your password. Click on “Save”.

A password recording request takes place whenever you connect to an account on a website open in Chrome. © Google Inc.

How to access passwords stored by Google ?

Return to the “password manager” page of your Google account, then scroll the page down to see the list of all sites or applications Applications whose password is saved. Click on the site or application of your choice.

All the sites whose password has been recorded are present on this page. © Google Inc.

For each site or application, you have the possibility to copy your username and password in the clipboard (by clicking on the corresponding icon), to view your password (for example, if you do not remember more and that you want to connect to an account from the browser of another device), to modify or delete it.

You can copy, see, modify or delete password from each site or application. © Google Inc.

How to control if a password has been stolen ?

Google has also integrated a function in its manager allowing you to check that your passwords have not been stolen.

To do this, Google compares your connection information with that contained in databases stolen information databases and tells you if it finds correspondence.
To carry out the operation, simply go to the page of the password manager, then click on “check the passwords” in the box “check-up passwords”.

Click on “Check passwords”. © Google Inc.

Click again on “Check the passwords” on the page that appears.

Make a single click on “Check the passwords”. © Google Inc.

The results of the analysis appear on the screen. As you can see on the illustration, two passwords have been stolen and can potentially be used for malicious people.

If that happens to you, you must immediately modify the passwords in question. Click on the arrow to see the list of sites that have been hacked.

Display the list of passwords for which a problem has been reported. © Google Inc.

Next to the names of the sites, click on “Change the password” for each elements on the list. You normally arrive on the home page of the sites mentioned, connect to each of them and do the change of your password.

Note that by clicking on the three points next to the “Changing the Password” button, new options are available to you. You can then display the password (and see if you use it on other sites), update it or delete it from the database (this deletes it from Google, but you still have to Change on the site or application whose data has been stolen).

These same options are available for passwords that you use on several different sites and not very secure passwords. As you already know, you must in theory create a single password difficult to hack for each site on which you must identify yourself.

As a reminder, your passwords are now managed by Google. You must therefore have a password that you will not use on any other site or any application. Otherwise you might see all of your compromise passwords if it was stolen from another site.

Chrome: Google strengthens the safety of its password manager

The Google Chrome password management module has benefited from an important update. Google further strengthens security by integrating new features.

You use Google Chrome daily ? So there is a good chance that you also use its integrated password manager. Generally, it is advisable to entrust the management of your passwords to a tool that is entirely dedicated to it. But the chrome password manager has at least one merit. That of securing these precious information without headache. It pushes users, little to the fact of this problem, to abandon their traditional cappin and to limit the reuse of the same password for several accounts.

The module, integrated into chrome both on desktop and on the Android and iOS versions of the browser, has benefited from an important update. Google has just introduced five new features to strengthen its safety and simplify its use.

An access shortcut and more authentications

On Desktop, Google wants to simplify access to recorded passwords in Chrome. To do this, the company has revised the interface of the page dedicated to them. The purpose of the operation is to allow you to access them more easily to consult them or modify certain parameters. The icing on the cake, you will soon no longer need to navigate through the Chrome menus to consult your access trousseau. Chrome will allow you to create a shortcut of access to passwords directly on the desktop of your computer.

Another novelty, and not least, you can soon use biometric authentication on your PC to validate automatic filling. Until now, the option was only available on the Android and iOS versions of Chrome. From now on, on your PC, you can use the fingerprint sensor, facial recognition, or any other authentication method integrated into your machine to confirm the automatic entry of your identifiers and passwords.

Importing passwords and additional notes

To complete the chrome password manager, Google has finally deigned to integrate a module allowing, for each saved identifier, to add a note. The option, which already exists in many competitors, will allow you, for example, to add additional information you may need on behalf of in question. These notes are also accessible from the pop-up suggesting your username and password that appears in Chrome when you connect to a website.

Google has also inaugurated a new option to allow you to import passwords from another password manager. You will only have to export your passwords to a file in CSV format to import it into Chrome so that the browser repatriated all your identifiers. Not sure it is the best decision for the safety of your passwords.

Finally, on iOS, the chrome password manager will add a string to his bow. In addition to alerting you when your passwords are compromised, it can very soon indicate passwords having been reused several times on different accounts. Google indicates that this novelty will be deployed in the coming months.