Security News

Mozilla Testing DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox
2018-11-30 21:28

Mozilla is moving forward with yet another project designed to provide users with increased security: it is now testing DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox stable. read more

Oh my chord! Sennheiser hits bum note with major HTTPS certificate cock-up
2018-11-29 01:11

Audiophiles could get played like a fiddle, have their web traffic snooped by son-of-a-pitch scammers Headphone maker Sennheiser is facing the music after being caught compromising the security of...

HTTP/3: Come for the speed, stay for the security
2018-11-14 12:52

Key personnel at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have suggested basing the next version of a core web protocol on Google technology.

'The inmates have taken over the asylum': DNS godfather blasts DNS over HTTPS adoption
2018-10-23 09:59

Can those who need lookup privacy afford architectural purism? The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has formally adopted DNS-over-HTTPS as a standard, and reignited a debate over whether...

You like HTTPS. We like HTTPS. Except when a quirk of TLS can smash someone's web privacy
2018-10-19 07:04

Never-closed browsers and persistent session tickets make tracking a doddle Analysis Transport Layer Security underpins much of the modern internet. It is the foundation of secure connections to...

HTTPS crypto-shame: TV Licensing website pulled offline
2018-09-06 12:16

Telly taxpayers' info sent in the clear The UK's TV Licensing agency has taken its website offline "as a precaution" after being blasted for running transactional pages that were not sent over HTTPS.…

How to nab a HTTPS cert for a stranger's website: Step one, shatter those DNS queries...
2018-09-06 10:01

Domain validation systems fooled by boffins Updated Researchers in Germany have discovered how to obtain HTTPS security certificates for web domains they don't own – even if the certs are...

Take a pinch of autofill, mix in HTTP, and bake on a Wi-Fi admin page: Quirky way to swipe a victim's router password
2018-09-06 05:02

If they fall for this social-engineering trick, of course Vid Beware using your web browser's autofill feature to log into your broadband router via Wi-Fi. If the login attempt is sent over...

Half of Alexa Top 1 Million sites now use HTTPS
2018-08-29 12:21

Slowly but surely, the Internet is on its way to being 100% encrypted. According Scott Helme’s latest analysis of the one million most visited websites according to Alexa, 51.8% are actively...

Give yourselves a pat on the back, top million websites, half of you now use HTTPS
2018-08-28 12:59

Now for the other half More than half (51.8 per cent) of the Alexa Top 1 Million sites are actively redirecting to HTTPS for the first time.…