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Chrome Wants to Catch Scams Before You Paste the Damage Into Your Terminal

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Illustration: a stylized browser window under a magnifying lens with an amber warning shield on the address bar; a command-line string dissolving into static before reaching a terminal prompt

In brief On October 20, 2026, Google announced three additions to Chrome’s Enhanced Protection mode: a new two-tier site-warning system, server-side Gemini-powered scam detection, and clipboard inspection that warns you when you copy a dangerous ClickFix command. The new “suspicious site” warning covers lower-confidence verdicts — pages that look like scams but do not clear … Read more

Eight Broken Keys: What the eMudhra Certificate Compromise Means for You

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In brief The private keys for eight intermediate certificates issued by India-based certificate authority eMudhra were found to be compromised — the key-generation process was “flawed” and “trivial to exploit,” according to Mozilla cryptography engineer Dennis Jackson. Holding those keys could let an attacker issue HTTPS certificates for websites they do not control, then impersonate … Read more