{"id":837530,"date":"2024-07-26T09:58:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T04:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=837530"},"modified":"2024-07-26T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T04:31:03","slug":"google-chrome-now-warns-users-when-downloading-shady-password-protected-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/26\/google-chrome-now-warns-users-when-downloading-shady-password-protected-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome now warns users when downloading shady password protected files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome, the most used web browser in the world will now warn users when they download password-protected files from sketchy sources. The previous warning messages are replaced with new ones, which give additional information about the type of risk so users can make more informed decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Google says it has introduced a \u201ctwo-tier\u201d download warning system which is based on \u201cAI-powered malware verdicts from the existing Google Safe Browsing functionality. This means for lower confidence verdicts and unknown risk, Chrome will show a \u201cSuspicious download blocked\u201d message but if you happen to download files with high risk to users, you will get a \u201cDangerous download blocked\u201d message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome, the most used web browser in the world will now warn users when they download password-protected files from sketchy sources. The previous warning messages are replaced with new ones, which give additional information about the type of risk so users can make more informed decisions. Google says it has introduced a \u201ctwo-tier\u201d download warning system which is based on \u201cAI-powered malware verdicts from the existing Google Safe Browsing functionality. This means for lower confidence verdicts and unknown risk, Chrome will show a \u201cSuspicious download blocked\u201d message but if you happen to download files with high risk to users, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}