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Google, Twitter, Facebook and many other major websites have moved to securing their information via HTTPS for all traffic. The excuses for not doing so are increasingly thinning. As users of the ...

WHAT IS SSL STRIPPING? SSL stripping is an attack in which an unauthorized party downgrades the connection security from HTTPS to HTTP. It takes advantage of weak spots in the process of migrating ...

The transition to the more-secure HTTPS web protocol has plateaued, according to Google. As of 2020, 95 to 99 percent of navigations in Chrome use HTTPS. To help make it safer for users to click on ...

Jennifer Simonson has spent more than 20 years writing for newspapers, magazines and websites. Her journalism career started in a Denver-area city council building as a government newspaper reporter.

Starting in October 2026, Google Chrome version 154 is set to have “Always Use Secure Connections” turned on by default. This means Chrome will try to connect to every public website using HTTPS. If ...

Google announced today that the lock icon, long thought to be a sign of website security and trustworthiness, will soon be changed with a new icon that doesn’t imply that a site is secure or should be ...

Most browsers these days are pretty darn secure. But can secure browsers be optimized even further? The answer is yes! Let’s dive into some of the most important security settings you’ll find in today ...