Starting today, Gmail messages sent or received from email providers that don't support TLS encryption will be flagged with a small broken padlock icon. Written by Natalie Gagliordi, Contributor ...

Yahoo and Google have been working on a browser plug-in to simplify end-to-end encryption, but that’s yet to yield a 1.0 release. If you’re not attached to e-mail, Facebook’s Messenger app ...

Google initiates an unlocked/broken lock icon system in Gmail in honor of Safer Internet Day, showing whether or not emails are encrypted or not. Gmail email has been encrypted for some time. Not ...

If you'd like to research for yourself just how secure a given website is, Martins recommends clicking on the padlock icon itself. That will bring up a "Connection" tab, which you can follow to ...

To password-protect emails, click the External encryption lock icon in the lower-left corner of the New Message entry box. Enter a secure password and an optional password hint, then click the Set ...

Google Chrome's redesigned 117 version to be released in September will feature a new "tune" icon on its web browser that will replace the lock icon on the URL bar.

As of last week, Google Messages indicated that Android-iPhone RCS conversations don’t support end-to-end encryption with a lock icon that features a slash. This is because Google Messages uses ...

However, on Tuesday, the crossed-out lock icon was removed from iOS-Android conversations. This change seems to be a server-side adjustment with the recent beta versions of Google Messages ...

Google is replacing the lock icon in Chrome because you probably don't know what it means. ... According to Google's research, only 11 percent of users realize that it refers to HTTPS encryption.