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...

'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...

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.…

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...

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...