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Fox News is one of three top news websites that are not encrypting content. In February, Emily Schechter, the Chrome Security Product Manager at Google, announced in a blog post that beginning with the release of Chrome version 68, “Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure’.” This means that Chrome users will see […]
Enlarge (credit: Rainway) Tens of thousands of Fortnite players have been infected by malware that hijacks encrypted Web sessions so it can inject fraudulent ads into every website a user visits, an executive with a game-streaming service said Monday. Rainway CEO Andrew Sampson said in a blog post that company engineers first detected the mass […]
Enlarge (credit: unrequited life) A major dust-up on an Internet discussion forum is touching off troubling questions about the security of some browser-trusted HTTPS certificates when it revealed the CEO of a certificate reseller emailed a partner the sensitive private keys for 23,000 TLS certificates. The email was sent on Tuesday by the CEO of […]
A green padlock might make it seem like a site is secure, but increasingly phishers are using it to lure victims into giving up sensitive info. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a25b22aa587381053b48abb/master/pass/PhishingHTTPs-FeatureArt.jpg Feed: All Latest
Enlarge / Damn computer hackers, always trying to steal all my stuff. (credit: Getty Images / C.J. Burton) This article was originally published on Scott Helme’s blog and is reprinted here with his permission. We have a little problem on the web right now and I can only see it becoming a larger concern as […]
Enlarge (credit: Nyttend) In a severe rebuke of one of the biggest suppliers of HTTPS credentials, Google Chrome developers announced plans to drastically restrict transport layer security certificates sold by Symantec-owned issuers following the discovery they have issued more than 30,000 certificates. Effective immediately, Chrome plans to stop recognizing the extended validation status of all […]
Enlarge Encrypted connections established by at least 949 of the top 1 million websites are leaking potentially sensitive data because of a recently discovered software vulnerability in appliances that stabilize and secure Internet traffic, a security researcher said Thursday. The bug resides in a wide range of firewalls and load balancers marketed under the F5 […]
