Security News

Still not using HTTPS? Firefox is about to shame you
2019-07-18 11:32

Two years after promising to report all HTTP-based web pages as insecure, Mozilla is about to deliver.

Google Makes DNS Over HTTPS Generally Available
2019-06-27 14:12

Google this week announced the general availability of its standard DNS over HTTPS (DoH) service, which includes full RFC 8484 support. read more

Google Announces DNS over HTTPS ‘General Availability’
2019-06-26 22:33

Google finalizes its DNS-over-HTTPS service inching toward a world where DNS request are sent via HTTPS and not UDP or TCP.

FBI warns users to be wary of phishing sites abusing HTTPS
2019-06-12 10:55

Why you shouldn't trust a website simply because it's secured using HTTPS and backed by the green padlock symbol.

FBI Warns of HTTPS Abuse in Phishing Campaigns
2019-06-11 15:26

Malicious actors are abusing users’ trust in the HTTPS protocol to launch phishing campaigns, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns in a recent alert.  read more

DNS over HTTPS is coming whether ISPs and governments like it or not
2019-04-24 10:59

DNS over HTTPS (DoH), backed by Google, Mozilla and Cloudflare, is about to make web surveillance a lot more difficult.

A patchy Apache a-patchin: HTTP server gets fix for worrying root access hole
2019-04-03 19:52

Rogue 'worker' processes can sneak in with elevated privileges at startup Apache HTTP Server has been given a patch to address a potentially serious elevation of privilege vulnerability.…

Attackers Store Malware in Hidden Directories of Compromised HTTPS Sites
2019-04-01 16:42

Cybercriminals are utilizing hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites to store and serve malicious payloads, Zscaler security researchers have discovered.  read more

Cloudflare Launches New HTTPS Interception Detection Tools
2019-03-19 18:21

Security services provider Cloudflare on Monday announced the release of two new tools related to HTTPS interception detection.  read more

Welcome to the sunlit uplands of HTTP/2, where a naughty request can send Microsoft's IIS into a spin
2019-02-21 11:59

It's patching time again for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 Oops! Microsoft has published an advisory on a bug in its Internet Information Services (IIS) product that allows a malicious HTTP/2...