How to prevent Phishing attacks on your Google account without any manual verification ?

Tech-Simplified
1 min readJul 29, 2018

Problem statement

As you all know that Phishing attacks are getting more and more advanced, just checking the address bar isn’t enough now as hackers now use unicode and other languages to make the website look same in address bar

There is a chance that you miss out checking thoroughly if you are in a hurry.

Solution for Google accounts

  • There is a new chrome extension which will verify if you entered your Google account password in the real Google account page
  • It will send an alert when entere your Google account credentials in a third-party website (no alert if Google account website is called for authentication which is safe)
  • If you use multiple accounts, multiple chrome profiles need to be setup Instructions
  • Download extension

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Saket Sharma | Tech | Games | Photography | Cybersecurity | Hacking | & Stuff 😉

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