In a move to improve user privacy and security, Google is simplifying its browser security settings. In a blog post, the Chrome security team said https:// pages will only be able to load secure ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google sends a nudge toward the unencrypted web Google sends a nudge toward the unencrypted web Starting in July, ...

In April 2019, ZDNet reported about a proposal Google had made to other browser makers in an attempt to get everyone on board. The plan, at the time, was that browsers block file downloads that take ...

Google announced today that the Chrome web browser will load all public websites via secure HTTPS connections by default and ask for permission before connecting to public, insecure HTTP websites, ...

To push more websites to implement encryption and to better protect users, Google will start flagging plain HTTP connections as insecure in its popular Chrome browser. The plan will go into effect in ...

Nearly two years ago, Google made a pledge: It would name and shame websites with unencrypted connections, a strategy designed to spur web developers to embrace HTTPS encryption. On Tuesday, it ...

If you're still running a website that is still using insecure HTTP then it's time to wake up and drink the coffee. Because unless you take action soon, you're going to find many of your visitors are ...

Google is planning to add a new security feature to the Chrome web browser designed to block potential attackers from launching side-channel attacks and tracking a user's activity by abusing the ...

Chrome has already taken numerous measures to inform users if they're on an unencrypted HTTP website, but starting today it's going one step further, with version 68 of the browser displaying a ...

Starting in July, any website not using HTTPS will be identified as "not secure" in Chrome. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

HTTP/3, the next major iteration of the HTTP protocol, is getting a big boost today with support added in Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Starting today, Cloudflare announced that ...

Once upon a time, typing “www” at the start of a URL was as automatic as breathing. And yet, these days, most of us go straight to “hackaday.com” without bothering with those three letters that once ...