Browser extensions can be just as dangerous as regular apps, and their integration with the tool everyone’s constantly using can make them seem erroneously innocuous. Case in point: a collection of ...

On Tuesday, the company is announcing "Password Checkup," which runs in Chrome all the time as you go about your daily web browsing, and checks passwords you enter on all sites against a database ...

Almost a dozen malicious extensions with 1.7 million downloads in Google's Chrome Web Store could track users, steal browser activity, and redirect to potentially unsafe web addresses.

Upgraded to flag untrusted Chrome extensions. Starting with Google Chrome 91, ... "After a short wait, if Safe Browsing determines the file is unsafe, Chrome will display a warning.

Chrome is also getting a new scanning feature for suspicious-looking downloads. In the future, any downloads that seem “risky, but not clearly unsafe” will offer an option to upload them to ...

Chrome will start displaying a new dialogue warning users to proceed with caution if an extension is not trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing. Security The best VPN services of 2024: Expert tested ...

Researchers have uncovered four malicious extensions with more than 500,000 combined downloads from the Google Chrome Web Store, a finding that highlights a key weakness in what's widely ...

Google's new Chrome extension can detect unsafe login credentials Google wants to help protect your accounts from hijackers By Shawn Knight February 5, 2019, 14:01.

Given the frequency of hacks and data leaks these days, chances are good that at least one of your passwords has been released to the wild. A new Chrome extension released by Google today makes it ...

The extension, which is only available on Chrome browsers, was designed with cryptography experts at Stanford University and Google. The users’ passwords and usernames will be encrypted so ...

Google has announced that it will be extending its policy that requires Chrome extensions to be hosted on the Chrome Web Store to all Mac users beginning in July 2015. Google says it is extending ...