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Chrome users who navigate to some HTTP sites will be notified, starting in January, they’re on a site that isn’t secure. Google said today the browser will begin explicitly labeling HTTP connections that feature either a password or credit card form as non-secure. The company said the plan is its first step toward marking all HTTP sites...
Google is adding HTTP Strict Transport Security (or HSTS) to the Google.com domain, an extra layer of protection that prevents visitors from using a less secure HTTP connection. By using HSTS, visitors following HTTP links to Google.com will be automatically redirected to the more secure HTTPS version of the Google domain. The effort, announced Friday, is...
LAS VEGAS — Researchers have found flaws in the Web Proxy AutoDiscovery protocol tied to DHCP and DNS servers that allow hackers spy on HTTPS-protected URLs and launch a myriad of different malicious attacks against Linux, Windows or Mac computers. According to the security firm SafeBreach, this vulnerability allows hackers to monitor the URLs of every...
A popular mobile application that provides financial market research material operates without a measure of encryption, putting user information, including credentials and strategic financial interests at risk. The Seeking Alpha mobile app for Android and iOS also leaks everything from HTTP cookies to stock positions the user may be interested in. The app is not...
Certificate authority Let’s Encrypt is celebrating a major milestone in the young nonprofit’s existence issuing its 5 millionth certificate this month. Let’s Encrypt launched to the general public just seven months ago. “Our goal is to get the entire web 100 percent HTTPS,” said Josh Aas, executive director for the Internet Security Research Group, the...
A recent Internet scan threw a bucket of cold water on the notion that wonky, unsecured services have been significantly reduced from the Internet. “Today’s Internet in 2016 looks like the 1996 Internet, which is a little depressing,” said Rapid7 security research manager Tod Beardsley. Beardsley and colleagues Bob Rudis and Jon Hart today published...
Google today flipped the switch on default HTTPS support for its free domain service provider Blogspot, upping the security ante for the millions of users of the popular platform. Google had previously introduced HTTPS support for Blogspot domains as an option in September 2015. Starting Tuesday, Google said, the browser-to-website encryption technology would be automatically added...
All custom domains hosted on WordPress.com will soon have their sites automatically encrypted for free. WordPress said late Friday afternoon that more than one million sites will have encryption automatically deployed. “We are closing the door to unencrypted web traffic at every opportunity,” wrote Barry Abrahamson, chief systems wrangler at Automattic, WordPress’ parent company. WordPress...
As promised, Mozilla officially began rejecting new SHA-1 certificates as of the first of the year. And as promised, there have been some usability issues. Mozilla yesterday said that some security scanners and antivirus products are keeping some from reaching HTTPS websites. “When a user tries to connect to an HTTPS site, the man-in-the-middle device...
Nothing in Google’s arsenal carries more weight than its search engine rankings. Pair that weapon with a desire to inspire encrypted connections on the web, and you have a pretty powerful combination. More than a year ago, Google said it was testing a method where a site’s search ranking would be influenced by whether it...