The payments by Alphabet Google to Apple to be the default search engine on Apple’s Safari web browser create “a significant barrier to entry and expansion” for Google’s rivals in the search engine market, the UK markets regulator said in a report released on Wednesday. The UK Competition and Markets Authority, in its final report investigating online platforms & digital advertising, said the arrangements between Apple and Google create “a significant barrier to entry and expansion” for Google’s rivals in the search engine market. Those rivals include Microsoft Corp’s Bing,…

  Internet users should exercise caution while installing Google Chrome extensions as the company has removed over 100 malicious links after they were found collecting “sensitive” user data, country’s cyber-security agency said on Wednesday. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In), the national technology arm to combat cyber-attacks and safeguard in Indian cyberspace, said it has also been found that these extensions contained code to bypass Google Chrome’s Web store security scans. The malicious extensions had the ability to take screenshots, read the clipboard, harvest authentication cookies or grab user…