Kourtnee covers TV streaming services and home entertainment. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter at Showbiz Cheat Sheet, where she wrote about film, television, music, celebrities and ...

Websites with addresses that start with “https” are supposed to provide privacy and security to visitors. After all, the “s” stands for “secure” in HTTPS: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. In fact, ...

Some Internet users are happy to enable their online security of choice and merrily trundle on around the web, trusting that the programs running in the background are keeping them safe from harm. For ...

Google will replace the feature with a new “tune” icon, which can open up additional privacy-related controls to the visited site. “Replacing the lock icon with a neutral indicator prevents the ...

If you’re reading this story on a browser, you’ll see a small lock icon in the address bar just like you would if you were reading something on 9to5Mac, the Verge, or Apple’s site. For years, it’s ...

Google announced today that the lock icon, long thought to be a sign of website security and trustworthiness, will soon be changed with a new icon that doesn’t imply that a site is secure or should be ...

Do you know what the lock icon in your web browser means? If not, you're far from alone. Google now plans to replace the lock next to the address in Chrome with a variant of the "tune" icon you see ...

In a nutshell: Google will soon be doing away with a staple of the Internet for Chrome browser users. The familiar padlock icon in the URL bar will be retired later this year in favor of a variant of ...