Malicious websites are stealing your information at an ever-increasing pace, and while Chrome's Safe Browsing is good at alerting you to potential threats to your data, such as phishing sites, it is not fast enough to quickly block a rapidly growing number of sites It is not fast enough

However, Google has introduced an answer in the form of real-time protection through Safe Browsing Along with this, the iPhone version has a useful update to the way passwords are checked Here are the details

Currently, Chrome's Safe Browsing mode uses a list stored on the device to check sites for potentially dangerous phishing scams This list gets its information from Google's server-side list and is updated every 30-60 minutes

However, it turns out that these dangerous sites can appear in less than 10 minutes, retrieve your information, and disappear without a trace Therefore, a quicker solution is needed, and it comes by relying on quick check-ins with the listings on the server side, rather than being limited to those on your device

This allows for real-time analysis of malicious websites and the red screen of "dangerous sites" we are all familiar with There are many complexities in how Google pulls this off in an instant, but in summary:

What makes this possible is that Google has partnered with Fastly to bring an Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) server to the party This means that everyone (even Google) will see your IP address

If you're using Chrome on iOS (welcome to the non-Safari family), you'll want to get the update that was just released; Password Checkup just got a tasty update, too, to improve account protection It has been greatly enhanced

In addition to checking for compromised passwords, Chrome will alert you if you sign up for anything with a weak or reused password All of this can be accessed through the "Security Check" in Settings