22-07-2023 20:34 via tech.slashdot.org

Google Urges Gmail Users to Enable 'Enhanced Safe Browsing' for Faster, More Proactive Protection

The Washington Post's "Tech Friend" newsletter has the latest on Google's "Enhanced Safe Browsing" for Chrome and Gmail, which "monitors the web addresses of sites that you visit and compares them to constantly updated Google databases of suspected scam sites."You'll see a red warning screen if Google believes you're on a website that is, for example, impersonating your bank. You can also check when you're downloading a file to see if Google believes it might be a scam document. In the normal mo
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