Starting in January 2017, Google’s web browser, Chrome, will treat any website encoded in HTTP as a non-secure site if it transmits credit card information or passwords, the tech company has revealed.

Google proposed the addition of automatic blocking of high-risk downloads from non-secure websites in future versions of its Chrome web browsers as revealed by a proposal from Google Chrome security ...

Enabling encryption on your Apple phone or tablet is easier than you think. Read now First announced two years ago, Google said it would flag any site that still uses unencrypted HTTP to deliver its ...

Google Chrome will no longer show whether a site you are visiting is secure and only show when you visit an insecure website. For years, Google has been making a concerted effort to push websites into ...

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 ...

Google’s online web browser Chrome is flagging countless websites as “not secure” following the roll-out of a new security feature yesterday. Google Fuchsia: Android app support, release date and more ...

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