Google adds phishing and malware data to Transparency Report



 Today, Google published a Transparency Report detailing the levels of malware and phishing sites the company detects on the web.

Google defines the two types of unsafe sites as follows:
  •     Malware sites contain code to install malicious software onto users’ computers. Hackers can use   this software to capture and transmit users' private or sensitive information.
  •     Phishing sites pretend to be legitimate while trying to trick users into typing in their username and password or sharing other private information. Common examples are web pages that impersonate  legitimate bank websites or online stores.
Google started the Safe Browsing program in 2006, which catalogs suspected malicious websites and warns people while browsing the web if they happen to come across a flagged site. Google is actively flagging up to 10,000 sites per day, and reports that through sharing this data with other browsers, they are able to help keep 1 billion users safe.

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