Google is working on providing Chrome users with an option to set the browser to always show full URLs for all websites they visit. At the moment, the option to always show full URLs can only be ...

Phishing and hoax news are two of the biggest problems facing internet users today, and these nefarious activities often spread via so-called lookalike URLs. But it seems like Google has a solution in ...

Engineers on Google's Chromium project are working on a new setting to satisfy Chrome users who still want to see the full URL of a website in the browser's address bar. However, Google thinks showing ...

The Google Chrome browser is set to add a feature that will warn users when accessing sites with domain names that look like authentic websites. The feature has been in the works for quite some time ...

More recently, Chrome has started graying out the URL after the domain name (a nice change designed to help users focus on the domain, to prevent phishing attacks). And now this, which removes the URL ...

Google is adding a new feature to Google Chrome that will warn users about similar, or lookalike, URLs that a user may visit thinking they are going to the normal site. This feature is designed to ...

Much of the web has switched to secure links—that is, when you type in a site like pcworld.com, it serves its pages over an https (“hypertext transfer protocol secure”) connection rather than over non ...