Mozilla launches Firefox Monitor, a tool to find out if your accounts are secure
Thanks to the collaboration with Have I Been Pwned Mozilla has released Firefox Monitor, a tool that allows you to find out if an account has been compromised within the most widespread attacks in recent years.
Firefox Monitor is a new service from Mozilla to check if the data in the various accounts have been compromised by one of the violations of recent years. It is not the first tool of this category, but it has behind one of the developers who have been more active in the field of security in recent years. In addition to the verification function, Firefox Monitor allows you to register to receive an alert if the saved accounts will be compromised.
The tool behind the new service is not entirely new, but comes thanks to a partnership between the software house and the team of Have I Been Pwned, a site that offers the same function since last 2013. The agreement between the two reality could considerably increase the user base, as well as awareness on the security status of their accounts. But that’s not all: to be sure, you have to follow some rules on the choice of passwords.
For example, it is advisable to use an exclusive password for each online service, and that it is not easy to infer for a third party user. Password management is an indispensable practice if you want to be present online, and Mozilla is not the only company to worry about it: Google itself has recently released an update on Chrome by integrating a password generator, in order to encourage users less experts to have healthier habits.
The same function can be added on Firefox (but also on Chrome) with highly reliable third-party add-ons, like LastPass or 1Password (the latter already offers an integration with Have I Been Pwned). There are also initiatives aimed at eradicating the problem from the root: for example, the WebAuthn standard, which aims to allow websites to access users using more secure methods, such as biometric sensors or USB tokens.
