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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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Google Reports That HTTPS Is Becoming More Popular
Google’s highlighting of unsecured websites is paying off. In order to make the internet safer for everyone, Google took it upon itself to call out unsecured websites. This was achieved via a series of warnings implemented in Chrome, and since that’s one of the most popular browsers in the world,…
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Cloudflare Leaking HTTPS Data for Major Websites
A security researcher discovered that sites using Cloudflare’s networking services have been leaking data for months, including HTTPS requests, which includes personal messages shared via dating sites and chat services. According to Tavis Ormandy, who works at Google Project Zero, Cloudflare was bleeding HTTP cookies, authentication tokens, HTTP POST bodies,…
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Firefox and Chrome Will Label HTTP Sites Insecure
With each passing day, it feels like there are more revelations coming out about spying by various nefarious actors. In an effort to make it harder on attackers, the industry as a whole is continuing the push to reduce HTTP connections and move to HTTPS. To help move things along…
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UK Police Deems HTTPS Use an Act of Terrorism
A man arrested by UK police for engaging in terrorist activities has been charged with publishing his blog using the HTTPS protocol. Samata Ullah, 33, from Cardiff, was arrested and charged with six terrorism offences related to his blog, which purportedly contained instructions on how to use guided missiles and…
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WordPress Enables Free HTTPS Connections to Custom Domains
WordPress is a free, open source content management system, typically used for blogs and quick makeshift websites. While it’s nice to have your own content, you want to make sure that its safe and secure, something which the “Lets Encrypt” project hopes to improve upon, a project that WordPress have…
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One in Three Servers Affected by New TLS Decryption Hack
A new vulnerability has been discovered by security researchers that could be used to allow eavesdroppers to spy on the traffic between users and as many as one-in-three HTTPS servers. The problem arises due to the fact that many HTTP servers still support the outdated and now-insecure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)…
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OpenSSL Bug Allowed Attackers to Decrypt HTTPS Traffic
The OpenSSL cryptographic library was recently updated in response to a high severity vulnerability that was found its code. The vulnerability made it possible for attackers to get hold of the decryption key used for traffic secured by HTTPS and other transport layer security methods. Thankfully, while the consequences of…
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New Firefox Testing Feature Warns Of Insecure Website Password Submission
Consumers are exposed to a myriad of cyber threats which are intent upon harvesting as much information as possible, from bogus emails offering state cash refunds to spoofed pages which purport to be from a genuine vendors, but are in fact aiming to collect sensitive consumer details. Well known and…
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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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Wikipedia Adds an Extra Layer of Security for Its Readers
Wikipedia just took security up a notch and added some extra security measures for its readers. The founders want to make connections between Wikimedia websites and their users more secure to share and view content. The extra security measure involves HTTPS as the default encryption protocol being used from now…
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Logjam Can Hijack Your HTTPS Connections
There are a lot of techniques involving malware, trojans or other sort of attacks, but this one seems to affect the common and widely used HTTPS protocol, making it more ‘nasty’ than the rest. Logjam is a cryptographic attack that targets the Diffie-Hellman key exchange in HTTPS, SSH, SMTPS and…
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Internet.Org, What Is It And Whats Happening?
Internet.org has been in the online news a lot recently, but what is it and why is it in the news? Internet.org is a scheme created by Facebooks Founder Mark Zuckerberg, the aim of which is to provide free internet access to several countries, hopefully reaching at least 5 billion…
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Netflix Soon to Secure Video Streams via HTTPS
The video streaming giant, Netflix will soon be using the HTTPS protocol to encrypt its customer streams. A great plan that helps ensure that what they watch stays secret. This change will leave Amazon as one of the largest encrypted sites. Turning on HTTPS on Netflix’s vast network of servers has…
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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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