Google Safe Browsing

Blacklist of malicious URLs

Google Condom Browsing

Screenshot Screenshot of the Google Safe Browsing in an Android device blocking a deceptive site.
Original writer(southward)	Google
Developer(due south)	Google
Operating system	Android, Chrome Os, Windows, macOS, iOS, Web browsers
Type	Cyberspace Security
Website	safebrowsing.google.com

Google Safe Browsing
is a service from Google that attempts to help protect devices by showing warnings to users when they endeavour to navigate to dangerous sites or download dangerous files. Safe Browsing also notifies webmasters when their websites are compromised past malicious actors and helps them diagnose and resolve the problem so that their visitors stay prophylactic. Rubber Browsing protections piece of work across Google products and are claimed to “power safer browsing experiences across the Cyberspace”.^[1]
It lists URLs for web resources that contains malware or phishing content.^[ii]
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Browsers like Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Vivaldi, Brave and GNOME Web use these lists from Google Safe Browsing service to cheque pages against potential threats.^{[four]
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Google also provides a public API for the service.^[6]

Google also provides data to Internet service providers, by sending e-mail alerts to autonomous system operators regarding threats hosted on their networks.^[3]

According to Google -equally of September 2017- over 4 billion Cyberspace devices are protected by this service.^[7]
Alternatives are offered by both Tencent and Yandex.^[eight]

Clients protected

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• Web browsers: Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Vivaldi, Brave and GNOME Web.
• Android: Google Play Protect,
  Verify Apps
  API
• Google Search
• Google AdSense
• Gmail
• Instagram

Privacy

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Google maintains the
Safe Browsing Lookup API, which has a privacy drawback: “The URLs to exist looked up are non hashed and so the server knows which URLs the API users have looked upwards”. The
Safe Browsing Update API, on the other hand, compares 32-flake hash prefixes of the URL to preserve privacy.^[9]
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The Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers use the latter.^[11]

Rubber Browsing as well stores a mandatory preferences cookie on the computer.^[12]

Google Safe Browsing “conducts client-side checks. If a website looks suspicious, information technology sends a subset of likely phishing and social engineering terms found on the page to Google to obtain additional information available from Google’s servers on whether the website should be considered malicious”. Logs, which include an IP address and one or more than cookies, are kept for 2 weeks and are tied to the other Prophylactic Browsing requests made from the same device.^[xiii]

Criticism

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Websites not containing malware take been blacklisted by Google Safe Browsing due to the presence of infected ads. Requesting removal from the blacklist requires the webmaster to create a Google Webmaster’due south Tool business relationship and wait several days for removal to come into consequence.^[14]
There have also been concerns that Google Safe Browsing may be used for censorious purposes in the future, however this has not yet occurred.^[xv]

Encounter also

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• Anti-phishing software
• StopBadware
• Response policy zone
• Censorship

References

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External links

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• Condom Browsing Homepage
• Transparency Written report: Safety Browsing