{"id":5732,"date":"2021-05-19T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=5732"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:13:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:13:03","slug":"chrome-automated-password-change-fixes-breached-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/chrome-automated-password-change-fixes-breached-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome \u201cAutomated Password Change\u201d Fixes Breached Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an effort to help users change passwords that have been compromised in data breaches, Google recently introduced a new feature called &#8220;Automated Password Change,&#8221; which allows users to change passwords automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new feature, whenever there&#8217;s a check for stolen passwords on supported app sites, Google Assistant displays a &#8220;Change Password&#8221; button that will instruct Chrome to go through the entire process of changing passwords on its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will also be an option for users to go through the entire experience manually during the login process.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/chrome-now-automatically-fixes-breached-passwords-on-android\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s new password feature automatically fixes breached passwords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-5732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5760,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}