This Chrome setting is more dangerous than you think — what you need to know.
defending against account takeovers” If you sync Google Chrome across your devices, you will likely be alarmed to know just how much data Chrome harvests and stores under your account on Google’s cloud.
That means private and sensitive data that has nothing to do with Google. All there for the taking, if hackers successfully steal your credentials.“Get your bookmarks, passwords and more on all your devices,” Google says. “When you sign in to Chrome, you can save info in your Google Account. You can then use your info on all your devices where you're signed in with the same account.” That includes "bookmarks, history and open tabs, passwords, payment info, addresses, phone numbers, payment info that you saved to Google Pay, passwords that you saved to your Google Account and addresses that you saved to your Google Account."from the browser’s settings. You can choose to “sync everything” or “customize” your own list. That means you could disable passwords or payment info from being sync’d across all your devices. Inconvenient, yes, but safer, because that sync works through Google’s cloud, secured by your account sign-in., and security experts caution against saving passwords in browsers. This is because a single password opens your accounts and accesses your passwords, and your passwords are at risk from browser attacks, which are not uncommon.You must also make sure you have added a passkey to your Google account, and a form of multi-factor authentication that’s not SMS. America’s cyber defense agency hasd justGoogle account holders to “disable other, less secure forms of MFA” and to "review existing passwords to ensure they are long, unique, and random.” Check and update your Chrome Sync settings now. You can also reset your Sync to delete past data and ensure nothing dangerous is lurking in your cloud account.
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