1Password Adds a Second Line of Phishing Defense to Its Browser Extension

Password-manager service 1Password won’t let you get past the paste command if it spots a phishing-scam site in your browser.This update to 1Password ($35.88 a year for an individual account, $53.88 a year for a family bundle covering up to five users) will interrupt that copy-and-paste workaround with a warning that you’re on the wrong site: “The website you’re on isn’t linked to a login in 1Password. Make sure you trust this site before continuing.” You’ll need to update 1Password’s apps to the new version 8.12.0-14 to get this feature in the browser extensions that the company offers for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and Brave. As security experts will testify, it can be all too easy for a persuasively crafted phishing message warning of the imminent loss of a critical account or a non-trivial sum of money to scare people into making hasty lizard-brain decisions. What is your experience with 1password services?