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Google has announced a new extension for Google Chrome called Password Checkup that will monitor the passwords that you type into websites to see if they have been compromised in a third-party data breach. Google says it has access to over 4 billion credentials that have been compromised and...

Google Chrome already blocks some bad advertising, but starting in December, Chrome 71 will start removing persistent abusive advertising experiences from a small number of sites. These are ads that intentionally deceive and force users to take actions that may redirect pages. As a result...

A Chinese software development house called Redcore made claim to being the first to have "broken the American monopoly" on web browsers. They boasted of developing the first "100pc China-developed browser." They did this by repackaging Google Chrome files into an installer and passing it off...

Google Chrome Release 68 will begin labeling HTTP websites as not secure. Google has been pushing for websites to switch to HTTPS for about a year, and now their day of reckoning is at hand. The update is scheduled to roll out tomorrow. Unencrypted sites to show "not secure" indicator For the...

The Google Security Blog has showcased a newly enabled Chrome feature that helps to protect against speculative execution side-channel attacks like Spectre. Site Isolation limits each renderer process to documents from a single site. To put this in context, previously Chrome allowed cross-site...

Google Chrome will start rejecting some certificates issued from Symantec on the basis that Symantec isn't validating them correctly. According to a Google blog post, it started as 127 certificates and then grew to some 30,000 standard and extended certificates being suspect. Symantec is very...