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Chrome 77 Released With Removed EV Certificate Indicator

Google has released Chrome 77 to the Stable desktop channel, with new features and 36 security fixes, with 1 being marked as Critical and 8 as High severity. […]

10 Sep

Google Unveils DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Plan, Mozilla’s Faces Criticism

Google has announced that they would soon be performing a trial of utilizing DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in the Google Chrome browser. This experiment will be conducted in Chrome 78 and will attempt to upgrade a user’s DNS server to a corresponding DoH server, and if available, use that for DNS resolution. […]

07 Sep

Google Calendar Spam Got You Down? A Fix Is on The Way

Google is working on a solution to stop spammers from abusing a Google Calendar feature designed to automatically add event invitations to its users’ calendars after receiving countless reports about spam events over the last few months. […]

27 Aug

Google Chrome is Losing the ‘Close Other Tabs’ Option

In order to reduce the “clutter” in the Chrome tabs context menus, Google has decided to remove the “Close other tabs” option as well as other features because they are not commonly used. […]

23 Aug

Google Chrome to Warn If Logins Are Found in a Data Breach

Google is adding a built-in data breach notification service to the Chrome browser that will alert users when they are logging into sites with credentials that have been exposed by breaches. […]

19 Aug

Gmail Is Down, Displays “Something Went Wrong” Errors

Google’s free Gmail email service is currently experiencing a worldwide outage which prevents users from logging in and displays “Something went wrong” errors when they’re trying to sign in to their accounts. […]

16 Aug

Google Has Started Removing FTP Support From Chrome

Google developers have wanted to remove FTP support from the Chrome browser for quite some time and have been slowly whittling away at its support. In a series of proposed code changes and an “Intent to Remove”, the end is near for the FTP protocol in Chrome. […]

15 Aug

Google Estimates 1.5% of Web Logins Exposed in Data Breaches

A study released by Google estimates that a 1.5% of all logins used across the web are vulnerable to credential stuffing attacks due to being disclosed in data breaches. While this percentage is quite small, when you take into consideration the total of amount of users and login credentials being used on the web, the number gets […]

10 Aug

Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected by These Methods

With the release of Chrome 76, Google fixed a loophole that allowed web sites to detect if a visitor was using Incognito mode. Unfortunately, their fix led to two other methods that can still be used to detect when a visitor is browsing privately. […]

01 Aug

Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// in the Address Bar Again

After installing Google Chrome 76, if you feel like something is missing from the address bar you would be correct. This is because Google has decided to once again hide, or elide, the “www” subdomain and also “https://” from the address of the web site you are visiting. […]

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