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 ...

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 ...

Malware is becoming increasingly sophisticated and even when you think a website you visit is safe, it might not actually be. While Black Friday and Cyber Monday have passed, online shopping will ...

As part of its security features, web browser Google Chrome uses a special set of symbols that alerts users to a website's validity. Shown in the left corner of the address bar, these icons provide ...

Firefox 70 is introducing new padlock icon security and identity indicators in the browser that will give less visual prominence to Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates and draw more attention to ...

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 ...