If you’re a fan of the Google Chrome web browser, it’s about to get a bit better.
Good recently announced a slate of new privacy features that will be included when the new version is released. The updates include real-time threat checking and password checking.
Per Wired’s write up:
Chrome’s new Enhanced Safe Browsing mode will attempt to play catchup. If you turn the feature on the address of websites you’re visiting will be shared with Google in real-time and the company will compare it to its blocklist of unsafe sites. This builds on its existing Safe Browsing mode. “Chrome checks the URL of each site you visit or file you download against a local list, which is updated approximately every 30 minutes,” Google explains in a blog post about the new setting. “Increasingly, some sophisticated phishing sites slip through that 30-minute refresh window by switching domains very quickly.”
There’s some good stuff en route, and this should also push Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, and others to keep pace.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via The Mac Observer and Wired