Google announced Thursday the strengthening of its “Security Check-up” tool, integrated into the browser Chromiumwhich is becoming more proactive than ever.
While waiting for the imminent era of passwordless connection with the arrival of security keys (or passkeys), Google continues to take computer protection very seriously. The famous Safety Check, or Security Check-up, is a small tool that you may have already encountered, in that it warns you when a password you use has been compromised, and that it is time to change it. The Mountain View firm has decided to make the tool a little more intrusive on the Chrome browser, for your good.
A Security Check-up that aims to protect your browsing on Chrome at all times
Now the Safety Check tool runs in the background on your browser. This is rather a good thing in that you will be alerted as quickly as possible, during your navigation, if a password saved in Google Chrome has been compromised. And this even extends to extensions, if the American giant detects them as dangerous.
Additionally, running the security tool in the background can also alert you if you are not using the most recent version of Chrome, or if the permissions requested by the site you are visiting are more worthy of your attention. .
To find these alerts, you will need, from the browser, to go to the top right part and click on the three small vertical dots. And you will see that Google’s new Security Check-up pushes vigilance even further, by granting itself some liberties.
Google takes matters into its own hands for your security
Always in the interest of protecting the user from possible flaws or compromises (and Chrome is accustomed to doing so), the Safety Check will be able to intervene to delete authorizations granted to sites, especially if you have not visited them for a while . This includes revoking authorization for your computer’s microphone or webcam.
Same thing for notifications: if the tool realizes that you have too many notifications from a site that you do not visit regularly or no longer at all, it will notify you and you can instantly deactivate the notifications’.
Finally, you may have noticed, but Google recently introduced a “Memory saver” mode (access via the three little dots, then Settings), which allows Chrome to free up memory (RAM) in inactive tabs of the browser. Know that by hovering over your tabs with your mouse, you will know how much memory they take from your machine, even when they are inactive.
Source : Google Blog
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