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Some US government websites won’t load after HTTPS certificates expire during shutdown

sudshr47 January 11, 2019

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 inaccessible or blocked by most browsers after their HTTPS certificate expired. With nobody available to renew them during the government shutdown, these sites are kicking back warning errors. According […]

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With Chrome 70, hundreds of popular websites are about to break

sudshr47 October 8, 2018

A lot of secure sites are set to grind to a halt with security error messages in the next version of Google Chrome, after the browser will drop trust for a major HTTPS certificate provider following a series of security incidents. Chrome 70 is expected to be released on or around October 16, when the […]

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Three years later, Let’s Encrypt now secures 75% of the web

sudshr47 September 14, 2018

Bon anniversaire, Let’s Encrypt! The free-to-use nonprofit was founded in 2014 in part by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is backed by Akamai, Google, Facebook, Mozilla and more. Three years ago Friday, it issued its first certificate. Since then, the numbers have exploded. To date, more than 380 million certificates have been issued on 129 million unique […]

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Firefox now supports the newest internet security protocol

sudshr47 August 13, 2018

Last Friday, the Internet Engineering Task Force released the final version of TLS 1.3. This is a major update to TLS 1.2, the security protocol that secures much of the web by, among other things, providing the layer that handles the encryption of every HTTPS connection. The updated spec promises improved security and a bit […]

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Google Chrome is ready to public shame any website still not using HTTPS

sudshr47 July 25, 2018

You may soon start to see a slew of warnings about how some of your favorite websites are “not secure.”

With the latest release of the Google Chrome web browser, Chrome 68, the search giant is taking a hardline stance when it comes to websites that aren’t using HTTPS. Chrome is labeling all sites using HTTP as “not secure” in the browsers address bar. Google made the announcement in a blog post titled “A milestone for Chrome security.”

In essence, Google is public shaming websites that still aren’t using HTTPS with this move. With HTTPS, the data sent between your browser and the website you visit is encrypted. When connecting to a “not secure” website using that uses simple HTTP, hackers can intercept any data passing through. In doing so, hackers can inject malware or make off with your personal data. Read more…

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Chrome will soon mark all unencrypted pages as ‘not secure’

sudshr47 February 8, 2018

Google’s Chrome browser will soon flag every site that doesn’t use HTTPS encryption. Starting in July, with the launch of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure’ and prominently highlight this in its URL bar. Over the course of the last few years, Google has strongly advocated for the use of HTTPS to help keep your browsing data safe from anybody… Read More