HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and is used widely on the Internet. It was okay during the initial years of the Internet for this protocol to ask login credentials etc. as there was not ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You may have heard people urging you to switch your website to the HTTPS security encryption. They cite Google’s announcement that HTTPS ...

Google has taken a significant step towards enhancing Chrome internet security by automatically upgrading insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS requests for 100% of users. This feature is called ...

Users of Google Chrome should soon be able to get online more safely than ever before following the announcement of a major security upgrade to the browser. With Mozilla having already announced that ...

Today’s a big day on WIRED.com. Take a look at your browser’s address bar. See that lock icon next to the URL? Starting today, we're making the switch to HTTPS. We’re starting on our Security vertical ...

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 ...

A massive effort to encrypt web traffic over the last few years has made green padlocks and "https" addresses increasingly common; more than half the web now uses internet encryption protocols to keep ...

HTTPS, or Hypertext Transport Protocol Secure, is a variation on the basic protocol used to serve Web pages over the Internet. HTTPS verifies the security certification of the page you're visiting to ...

If you want to protect yourself against the 500,000 or so HTTPS certificates that may have been compromised by the catastrophic Heartbleed bug, don’t count on the revocation mechanism built-in to your ...

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 ...