Last week, we celebrated World Password Day with a traditional reminder of best practices that all users should consider in the interest of their security, and here is a report that partly goes in that direction. The next part is a little scary, and that is that automatisms are twofold.

Basically, the headline says it all: Chrome automatically recovers revealed passwords. How is it? As it sounds, but with nuances. The first and most important is that this feature will be implemented on Android Chrome, not PCalthough all indications are that sooner rather than later it will also be a feature available in the latter.

However, since you may be lost, let me remind you how you got here. It all starts with a broad interest in improving the management of passwords stored by current web browsers, which we could easily consider the most popular password managers, even if they are not. In fact, it is still recommended that you use a separate password manager for the task.

Now the reality is as it is and since then Many people use a browser for everythingWhat is less than password management is adequate. Google has been improving Chrome capabilities and improvements in this regard for some time, forgive redundancy, it was ongoing: from the ability to edit to notifications of weak passwords and their corrections.

Earlier, and following on from Firefox (Mozilla pioneered it, although it is an advanced feature among password managers), Chrome has implemented a password warning, ie when it is discovered after a while that a password has been compromised. .. type of attack (for example, a security breach on the page where you have a registered account), the browser will notify you and prompt you to change it.

Improving password management is still an unresolved task for many users

Chrome will now go one step further and will not only alert you when it detects that passwords have been revealed, but also it automatically changes them for greater safety and convenience user as it is calculated. how will it be Through the Google Assistant on Android, so the user will always be informed about the problem – and its solution.

It’s a little scary that the browser – or the software as a whole – cooks and consumes it that way, but if the process is transparent, it’s a good precaution … for those who use Chrome as the browser and administrator primary or secondary passwords.

The answer to the question of how to verify password disclosure is the same as before: regular checking of the well-known Have I Been Pwned database, which is used by all applications in the segment, from Firefox. specialized password managers such as KeePass or others. It is still the case convenient recovery of old passwords time from time.

However, this new feature will not work with all sites, only some, at least for now. And although the reason has not been explained, experts point to the different ways in which websites modify passwords and the difficulty of adapting to everyone. For example, it is common for you to verify password changes via e-mail, and these issues need to be handled with care.

So it is clear that this change is aimed not only at Chrome users, but also at Google users, but because it is in the early stages of implementation, we will have to wait for it to evolve.