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HTTP to Give up TCP in Favor of a Simpler QUIC Protocol
QUIC to enable faster and more stable internet connections. As technology evolves year after year, it only makes sense for the internet itself to undergo some changes. Fortunately, these changes are meant to support a faster, more stable, and more secure internet, and all of this can be achieved by…
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Google Chrome Will Label All HTTP Not Secure
Google Chrome 68 Shames HTTP Over the past couple of years, there has been a major move to make the web more secure. The chief advancement to improve security is the move to HTTP Secure. In recent times, most browser vendors started a major push to enforce HTTPS on all websites. Google…
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BotNet of CCTV Cameras Discovered
When it comes to using computers, a lot of us feel out of depth when warnings and unwanted pop-ups create unexpected situations that can cost us hours in time as we figure out the issues. It would seem someone has found a way of converting your everyday internet connected CCTV…
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New Web Code to Reveal When You’re Blocked by Censorship
Web status codes are sent by websites to give you a summary when you attempt to access them, from the classic 404 error telling you that there is no content found, to less subtle ones like 204, which means you found the site, but it contains no body, so doesn’t…
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reddit Ditches HTTP Goes All In HTTPS
Starting June 29th, popular site reddit will be enforcing HTTPS compliance with all of its traffic. Plaintext HTTP traffic will be rejected by the site starting on that date. HTTPS will be supported by HSTS to make sure it is more secure and secure against downgrade attacks. This move comes after…
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These Eight Characters Crash Skype
Users have found a rather interesting bug in the popular voice and video calling application, Skype. The problem (now fixed in an update) caused skype to crash when you sent “http://:” via an instant message. Once the message has been sent, if you re-open Skype – it will instantly crash…
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Firefox 37 to Encrypt Non-HTTPS Traffic
Mozilla is making great strides towards making user experience as secure as possible, and with the release of Firefox 37 it brings HTTP encryption, without a need for HTTPS, the standard security layer for communications protocol encryption. The latest iteration of Firefox achieves this thanks to what is known as…
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GitHub Gets Hit by the Biggest DDoS Attack in Site’s History
GitHub, the popular website used for projects spanning from game engines to security applications and even web app frameworks, is apparently suffering the biggest DDoS attack in the website’s history, which they believe to originate from China. The attack appears to have started last Thursday and has all its staff…
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HTTP/2, The First HTTP Update Since 1999, Is Complete
HTTP, the fundamental internet protocol used to transmit formatted data across the web, is getting its first update in 16 years. The new standard, HTTP/2, was completed on Wednesday, according to Mark Nottingham, Chair of IETF HTTP Working Group. After a series of editorial stages, HTTP/2 will be published as…
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Chrome to Be Faster Thanks to New HTTP Protocol
When Google launched Chrome, they intended to bring a faster web browsing experience. To do this they developed their own protocol known as SPDY. With the next version of HTTP, HTTP/2, being close to fully standardized, Google is making the switch in Chrome 40 which will roll out in the…
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