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 ...

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 ...

Google has long wanted to replace the lock icon in Chrome’s address bar, and it’s finally proceeding with those plans in September as part of a broader browser redesign. The company notes how ...

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 ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Google has announced it is changing the way it marks up secure HTTPS pages, removing the green padlock. The web giant explained in a blog post at the end of last week that “users should expect that ...

Internet users are being taught to think about online security the wrong way, which experts warn might actually make them more vulnerable to hacking and cyberattacks. Websites that want to demonstrate ...

A massive effort to encrypt web traffic over the last few years has made green padlocks and "https" addresses increasingly common; more than half the web now uses internet encryption protocols to keep ...

Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps. Unfortunately, this has never been more useless advice. New ...