Google Adds Deceptive Software to Safe Browsing API

  • 25 March 2015
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This is interesting and a great idea, I hope it is successful.
 
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by Dennis Fisher       March 25, 2015 , 10:42 am
 



Google is continuing to refine its Safe Browsing API and now is giving users warnings about not just malicious software on sites they’re attempting to visit, but also about unwanted software.

Google’s Safe Browsing API is designed to help protect users from a variety of threats on pages across the Internet. The functionality is built into Chrome, as well as Firefox and other browsers, and when a users tries to visit a page that Google’s crawlers or other users have reported to be hosting malware, phishing links or other types of threats it will throw up a warning dialog. Depending upon the type of threat found on the target page, the browser will give the user various types of information and options.
 
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