Find out if your passwords were exposed with Android's Password Checkup

Source: Google

Another one of the new features Google is rolling out will let you know if you are using unsafe passwords. Chrome users will be familiar with Password Checkup, but now it's coming to Google's mobile operating system, too. It will work for Android devices running on Android 9 and above.

Google keeps track of hacks where passwords are exposed. And when you enter a password into an app with Autofill, it will warn you if your password was leaked. If you want to get more details about this upcoming feature, you can check this blog post.

Some of the other new features we've written about include Schedule Send for Android Messages, new Android TalkBack capabilities, Google Assistant locked screen support, Android Auto updates, and Dark Mode for Google Maps.

Google integrates 'password checkup' into its password manager

If you're a Google user, you would know the tech giant offers a password manager that syncs across Chrome and your Android devices. Now, the service adds a "password checkup" feature that analyzes your logins to make sure these aren't part of a massive security breach. This feature was previously available as an extension, but now it's being added right into your account controls, and you'll see it at the forefront of passwords.google.com. It's similar to what site haveibeenpwned.com is doing.

Your login credentials will be compared to the millions of known comprised accounts to see if your account has been part of any significant breach. According to Google, it monitors the dark web to some extent for collections of passwords. But for the most part, it makes password comparisons by crawling through the open web. And if it finds that any of your passwords are part of a breach, Google will encourage you to change this password. It'll also let you know if you're using weak passwords. The company promises that the passwords are hashed and encrypted before it's sent to Google, and that "it has no way of seeing your data." Also, that "any warning that's generated about your details is entirely local to your machine."

Source: The Verge

Report finds one out of five employees would sell work passwords

For today’s disconcerting news, a new report from an Austin, Texas-based security firm finds that incentivized or disgruntled employees don’t find it hard to sell their work passwords. According to SailPoint, one in five employees will give in to this and they won’t even ask for that big of an amount with some willing to give it away for less than $1,000 USD. Another one of the findings of the report is about two-thirds of employees share passwords and credentials with coworkers with 16 percent only using a single password for all their credentials. Companies aren’t good either with locking a former employees’s account after letting them go. The report says 42 percent of those who responded could access their corporate accounts and data even after termination.

Source: SailPoint | Via: The Next Web