102 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021GUIDE TO PC SECURITY
HPI will send you a matrix of what information has been released in conjunction with your
email, organized by most recent.colour-coded chart of what data is at risk,
and from what breach.BROWSERS ARE ADDING
FREE PASSWORD MONITORING
Both of the above services only reveal if
a specific email address has been part
of a breach, however – not if a non-email username – ‘billg’, say – has been
exposed. Here, you’ll want a trusted
service that knows you, as well as the
passwords that you’ve chosen. Don’t
go chasing random sites to ‘check’ your
passwords – stick with trusted names.
(Also,notethatpasswordmonitoring
is apaid service for most password
managers – but not for
passwordmanagerswithin
aweb browser.)Google Password
Checkup
In 2019, Google added a free
browser plug-in for Chrome
that warned you, once you’d
logged into a compromised
site, if your email or password
had been compromised. In
October of 2019 Google
began automatically checking
passwords against breaches,
and as of Chrome 79 began
monitoring your online use
to avoid getting ‘phished’,Google’s Password Checker has a handy dashboard to
display if your password has been compromised.