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From Google, a plugin that detects when you type your google.com password into a non-Google web page.
https://jigsaw.google.com/products/password-alert/
Fake login pages tricks users to give their password to an attacker. These "phishing pages," when well-crafted, are successful about 45% of time. When a password has been stolen, the attacker uses the email account to gather harmful information, or to email others, pretending to be the account holder.
The tool works like a spellchecker, except instead of looking for typos it's looking to see if you enter your Google password into anywhere other than your account sign-in page. If it detects that you've mistakenly entered your password in the wrong place, it immediately alerts you and asks you to change your password to be safe again.
So it is somewhat analogous to cert-pinning for passwords. It would be nice if they expanded it to all website/password combos instead of just google.com
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @07:12AM
Most people use the same password everywhere. This is going to train them to ignore yet another warning.
To use different passwords on every web site, you need a password manager. First of all, these are not exactly grandma-friendly, and second, a password manager is a form of writing down your password, something users have been told not to do for years.
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Tuesday September 13 2016, @01:32PM
I don't use a password manager, but a trivial algorithm I run in my head, salted with the site name. It's instantaneous and effortless.
The only few passwords I need to memorize are of a few more important accounts that I prefer not to use this system.