Author: Jay Peters
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Starting today, users enrolled in Google’s Advanced Protection Program, which brings increased security and protections to high-profile Google Account users like journalists, activists, politicians, and business leaders, will get additional safeguards for downloads made in Chrome.
To turn on the feature, Google says that a user enrolled in the Advanced Protection Program just needs to turn on Chrome sync. Then, when that user tries to download a file that Chrome identifies as potentially dangerous, Chrome will show a warning or even block the download.
Google says it added this feature to better protect against attacks that happen outside of email through linked malware and accidental downloads of harmful software.
The Advanced...
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Starting today, users enrolled in Google’s Advanced Protection Program, which brings increased security and protections to high-profile Google Account users like journalists, activists, politicians, and business leaders, will get additional safeguards for downloads made in Chrome.
To turn on the feature, Google says that a user enrolled in the Advanced Protection Program just needs to turn on Chrome sync. Then, when that user tries to download a file that Chrome identifies as potentially dangerous, Chrome will show a warning or even block the download.
Google says it added this feature to better protect against attacks that happen outside of email through linked malware and accidental downloads of harmful software.
The Advanced...
Continue reading…
Continue reading...