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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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Gmail Says Use of Encrypted Emails Has Risen 25%
We use email every day, be it sending them for work or personal reasons or getting a thousand and one emails advertising everything from something you are interested in helping a foreign prince distribute their wealth. One way that you can be protected when sending emails is to send encrypted…
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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 The problem arises due to the fact that many HTTP servers still support the outdated and now-insecure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)…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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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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