Does your site collect sensitive visitor information such as passwords, credit card information, or personal data? If so, be warned: by the end of January 2017, Google Chrome will begin marking sites ...

Starting next month, websites that aren’t using HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) will get an embarrasing “Not Secure” badge tacked on by Google Chrome. Much like that other deadline you’ve ...

Hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP, and file transfer protocol, known as FTP, are two methods that allow you to upload or download files and pages from the Internet. The two have overlapping ...

Google is making security a ranking signal and has begun by encouraging webmasters to switch over to using HTTPS, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. A website that uses HTTPS is often identified ...

Much of the web has switched to secure links—that is, when you type in a site like pcworld.com, it serves its pages over an https (“hypertext transfer protocol secure”) connection rather than over non ...

Q: What do I do when I get this message: “There is a problem with this website’s security certificate?” We’ve all been taught to look for https: (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure) at the beginning ...

A new cyber threat is emerging: malicious actors targeting public entities via encrypted attacks. Hypertext transfer protocol secure, or HTTPS as it’s better known, has long been the standard for ...

The Internet can be a dangerous place, wrought with fraud and data theft. To help protect your small business data it's a good idea to have a basic understanding of secure Internet protocols. These ...

Two security researchers claim to have developed a new attack that can decrypt session cookies from HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) connections. Websites use session cookies to remember ...