Security News

Google completes ban of extensions not in the Chrome Web Store (Help Net Security)
2015-05-15 10:57

Google is slowly but surely working on preventing developers of malicious Chrome extensions from delivering their wares to users. First, in May 2014, they made it so that extension that are not hos...

WinYahoo adware changes your Chrome secure preferences (Help Net Security)
2015-05-14 09:39

Potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) might not be as dangerous as malware, but can often lead to unexpected perils. Take for example WinYahoo. Despite it's name and the fact that, among other thing...

Chrome extension protects your Google account from phishers (Help Net Security)
2015-04-30 07:36

Google developers have created Password Alert, an open source Chrome extension that aims to prevent users from entering their Google password in a phishing site or, alternatively, alert them when they...