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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest version of Google's web browser, Chrome 68, is taking on one of the web's basic but most important issues: encryption. The iteration of Chrome, which is released on July 24, is taking a ...

Lenovo is selling computers that come preinstalled with adware that hijacks encrypted Web sessions and may make users vulnerable to HTTPS man-in-the-middle attacks that are trivial for attackers to ...

Nearly two years ago, Google made a pledge: It would name and shame websites with unencrypted connections, a strategy designed to spur web developers to embrace HTTPS encryption. On Tuesday, it ...

After Edward Snowden revealed that online communications were being collected en masse by some of the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies, security experts called for encryption of the entire ...