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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.…

Serious Security: How to stop dodgy HTTP headers clogging your website
2018-08-21 18:28

It's been dubbed ReDos, for Regular Expression Denial of Service - where a few rogue HTTP requests could clog your whole site.

Parasite HTTP RAT Packs Extensive Protection Mechanisms
2018-07-26 18:49

A newly discovered remote access Trojan (RAT) dubbed Parasite HTTP includes a broad range of protections, including sandbox detection, anti-debugging, anti-emulation, and more, Proofpoint reports....

HTTP versus HTTPS – what’s all the fuss? [VIDEO]
2018-07-26 11:55

With non-HTTPS sites now getting actively outed as "insecure" by browsers... well, why should we care? We explain in plain English...

Chrome Now Marks HTTP Sites as "Not Secure"
2018-07-25 16:09

The latest version of Google's Chrome web browser (Chrome 68) represents another step the search giant is making toward a more secure web: the browser now marks HTTP sites as “Not Secure.” read more

Google Starts Labeling All HTTP Sites as ‘Not Secure’
2018-07-24 21:15

Any Chrome user visiting an HTTP website will see an impossible-not-to-notice warning label that the site is "not secure."

From today, Google Chrome starts marking all non-HTTPS sites 'Not Secure'
2018-07-24 19:18

Starting today with the release of Chrome 68, Google Chrome prominently marks all non-HTTPS websites as 'Not Secure' in its years-long effort to make the web a more secure place for Internet...

In encryption push, Chrome flags HTTP sites as 'non secure'
2018-07-24 15:35

The warnings aim to push sites to adopt HTTPS to prevent snooping.