To protect an external drive with BitLocker to Go, ... Enter the correct password, however, and the icon changes to an open padlock; the drive can now be used like any other unprotected drive.

Google is bringing a subtle yet controversial change to its Chrome web browser. Beginning with Chrome 117, secure HTTPS connections will no longer have a padlock icon next to the URL.

Google will retire Chrome’s HTTPS padlock icon because no one knows what it means Google says only 11% of users understand "the precise meaning of the lock icon." ...

Krebs on Security today reported on newly-published data from PhishLabs that shows 49% of all phishing sites are sporting the padlock as of Q32018. In the previous quarter, that number was 35% ...

The padlock symbol simply means that the data being sent between the web server and the user’s computer is encrypted and cannot be read by others. But many people don’t know that.