Google is bringing a subtle yet controversial change to its Chrome web browser. Beginning with Chrome 117, secure HTTPS connections will no longer have a padlock icon next to the URL. Instead, users ...

If you've ever taken comfort in seeing a padlock in your browser's URL bar, you might want to rethink the trust you put in that little icon. New research shows that an increasing number of phishing ...

Analysis: The padlock symbol means data sent between the web server and the user's computer is encrypted and can't be read by others, but many don't know that Do you know what the padlock symbol in ...

Do you know what the padlock symbol in your internet browser’s address bar means? If not, you’re not alone. New research by my colleagues and I shows that only 5% of UK adults understand the padlock’s ...

Chrome announced that it will soon transition the Chrome browser away from the lock icon that signals a secure HTTPS connection and introduce a more neutral icon that they believe will present a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new tune icon will replace it later this year to avoid misleading users about how ‘trustworthy’ websites are ...

The lock icon in Google Chrome is a security indicator that appears in the address bar of the browser when you visit a website that uses HTTPS encryption to secure your connection. The lock icon ...

Take a look at the address bar of the best internet browsers and you’ll notice a number of icons in there. You might not have given them a whole lot of thought, but they can tell you a lot about the ...

Google will treat Transport Layer Security encrypted pages as the default soon with no indications shown, and call out unencoded HTTP web content as unsafe. As part of a long-running move to push ...

Google has announced a big change to its Chrome browser this month announcing that from version 117 the browser will no longer feature the lock icon when a site loads over HTTPS. Initially added to ...

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