Transport Layer Security or TLS is a method of encrypting web traffic. It helps ensure your daily web browsing is safe and secure. Here’s how it works. Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a security protocol that’s mostly used to secure…
Over the past few years, tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla are pushing forward with DNS over HTTPS. Well, it’s an important technology to improve security and online privacy. You might have heard about the term DoH (DNS…
Mozilla is activating DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for all Firefox users in the U.S., nearly two years after the company first started testing the protocol. DoH, for the uninitiated, is a standard proposed by the Internet Engineering…
Google Chrome 76, released a few days ago, has a surprising change: It hides the www. and https:// for website addresses in the omnibox, or address bar. This comes after an outcry when Google tried this back in Chrome 69. As spotted by…
Google’s Gary Illyes said that you should not ignore the HTTPS ranking signal. He said on Twitter “the signal affects enough queries measurably that I wouldn’t ignore it.” Here is the tweet from Gary Illyes: I can’t say the exact number…
Most web traffic online is now sent over an HTTPS connection, making it “secure.” In fact, Google now warns that unencrypted HTTP sites are “Not Secure.” So why is there still so much malware, phishing, and other dangerous activity online?…
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Chrome fans might have noticed a little change in their browsers today. Assuming you’re running Chrome’s latest iteration, version 68, you’ll now see a big “not secure” button in the address bar whenever you pull up a website that starts…