HTTPS has grown in popularity (for news sites and others) in part because, by encrypting communication between a web browser and a web server, it limited governments’ ability to eavesdrop on or censor ...

In today’s digital-first world, businesses often assume that simply installing an SSL certificate makes their website ...

Online dangers are growing with our love of online shopping. In fact, 79% of U.S. consumers say that they shop online more frequently now than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic. Although, it also ...

Having a secure site offers plenty of benefits for SEO. Here are the top reasons why you should switch from HTTP to HTTPS. In 2018, Google started showing this to Chrome users if they clicked on a non ...

Starting next year, Google Chrome will get a lot tougher on websites that have not fully migrated to HTTPS and are still loading some page resources, such as images, audio, video, or scripts, via HTTP ...

The U.S. government is mandating the use of the HTTPS security protocol on all of its public websites and web services by the end of 2016. Deploying HTTPS will authenticate communications with ...

Cookies, the files that websites create in browsers to remember logged-in users and track other information about them, could be abused by attackers to extract sensitive information from encrypted ...

Google announced today that the Chrome web browser will load all public websites via secure HTTPS connections by default and ask for permission before connecting to public, insecure HTTP websites, ...

Firefox 83, scheduled for release later today, will ship with a new security feature named "HTTPS-Only Mode" that will try to load all websites via HTTPS or show an ...

In a government shutdown, everything deemed non-essential stops. As we found out, renewing the certificates on its websites is considered non-essential. Several government sites are currently ...

We like to think of ourselves as nerds here at TechCrunch, which is why we’re bringing you this. During the government shutdown, security experts noticed several federal websites were throwing back ...