Security News

Taking HTTPS Denial to an Absurd Level
2017-11-02 18:01

Researcher Troy Hunt discovers as far as the internet has come in adopting HTTPS, it still has a ways to go.

Websites Increasingly Use HTTPS: Google
2017-10-23 11:28

Over 60% of Sites Loaded via Chrome Use HTTPS, Says Google The number of websites that protect traffic using HTTPS has increased considerably in the past months, according to data shared by Google...

DHS Orders Federal Agencies to Use DMARC, HTTPS
2017-10-17 08:13

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a binding operational directive requiring all federal agencies to start using web and email security technologies such as HTTPS, DMARC and...

Google to enforce HTTPS on TLDs it controls
2017-10-04 19:21

In its sustained quest to bring encryption to all existing Web sites, Google has announced that it will start enforcing HTTPS for the 45 Top-Level Domains it operates. How will it do that? You may...

What’s Triggers HTTPS Chrome Browser Warnings?
2017-09-20 18:20

Researchers combed through 2,000 Chrome error reports to better classify HTTPS error warnings.

HTTPS Certificate Revocation is broken, and it’s time for some new tools (ArsTechnica)
2017-07-03 12:00

Certificate Transparency and OCSP Must-Staple can't get here fast enough.

Making HTTPS phishing sites easier to spot (Help Net Security)
2017-06-28 18:31

For years, we taught users that a website’s URL that includes https at its very beginning is a relatively good indicator of whether they can safely input sensitive information into it. Most users...

Rash Of Phishing Attacks Use HTTPS To Con Victims (Threatpost)
2017-05-26 12:00

Phishing sites are deploying freely available TLS certificates in order to dupe victims into thinking they're visiting a safe site.

Number of HTTPS phishing sites triples (Help Net Security)
2017-05-19 16:06

When, in January 2017, Mozilla and Google made Firefox and Chrome flag HTTP login pages as insecure, the intent was to make phishing pages easier to recognize, as well as push more website owners...