- Chrome’s password administrator will now allow automated password change
- The new feature helps reduce friction, says Google
- Passwords remain the number one authentication method
Users can now change passwords directly compromised in their Chrome browser, just a few clicks. This is the promise given in a new Google blog that discusses the extensive changes that the company is contributing to user authentication and identity verification.
Most browsers already come with a rudimentary form of) password administrator, allowing users to generate safe passwords, store their credentials and fill them automatically for faster speed and convenience.
Now, Google Chrome developers, Ashima Arora, Chiag Desai and Eiji Kitamura, said the company is based on that base to “fix the committed passwords of a single click.”
Change passwords
“Automated password change facilitates users to respond when their credentials are at risk,” says the blog. “When Chrome detects a compromised password during the login, Google Passions Manager asks the user for the option to solve it automatically. On the compatible websites, Chrome can generate a solid replacement and update the password for the user automatically. This reduces friction and helps users to maintain their safe account, without hunting through the configuration of the account or abandon process”.
Passwords are still, with much, the most common and popular form of authentication. They are also the least safe way, since people tend to create weak and easy to understand passwords, tend to share them with friends, family and co -workers, or store them in insecure locations that hackers can easily access.
The community has recovered behind alternatives such as orouses, biometric authentication or physical security keys. Google is also working on all these (and then some), but emphasized that passwords “were still the most common authentication method in the world”, which suggests that it is not abandoning practice in the short term.
The complete blog is a very interesting reading, which discusses a unified login experience, an improved identity verification and greater session security. You can read it in more detail in this link.
