"When you add a passkey to your Google Account, we will start asking for it when you sign in or perform sensitive actions on your account," the software engineers wrote. In addition, password managers solve the issue of memorizing strong passwords but themselves can be problematic: you are putting all your eggs in one basket, so to speak, and things like the security breaches at LastPass make some of us nervous about the whole arrangement.
There's nothing stopping cunning miscreants from collecting MFA codes along with usernames and passwords from phishing pages.
#MY GOOGLE PASSWORDS VERIFICATION#
Having MFA is better than nothing though it still puts the burden on users who have to deal with an additional verification step, and it doesn't fully protect against phishing, credential stuffing, and targeted scams like SIM swaps for text verification. Users can have tens or hundreds of accounts and may reuse passwords or rely on simple ones – "password" and "123456" tend to be popular – to make it easier to remember them. There are myriad other problems with passwords. In addition, even the most savvy users are often misled into giving them up during phishing attempts." "Choosing strong passwords and remembering them across various accounts can be hard. "Using passwords puts a lot of responsibility on users," Arnar Birgisson and Diana Smetters, engineers with Google's Identity Ecosystems, wrote in an announcement on Wednesday.
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