In August 2014, Google launched their HTTPS ranking boost, where it would give sites that served up their pages on HTTPS a small ranking boost. But did you know that the only signal Google uses to ...

Google Chrome will soon have an experiment that will automatically try to connect to the HTTPS versions of website URLs that you type into the address bar instead of the insecure HTTP version. For ...

When you use HTTPS, the addresses you visit are supposed to be encrypted, regardless of what network you’re connected to. A newly discovered vulnerability proves that’s not necessarily true. If you’re ...

Google's new HTTPS report will help webmasters identify pages that are indexed as unsecured and help them identify why. “One of the common requests we heard from you was to provide more information ...

Last Thursday, Google launched a new ranking signal to give HTTPS sites a ranking boost, a small ranking boost, to encourage webmasters to migrate their sites from HTTP to HTTPS. In our story from ...

Sniffing HTTPS URLs with malicious PAC files gets easier with a new technique that exploits flaws in the Web Proxy AutoDiscovery protocol. LAS VEGAS — Researchers have found flaws in the Web Proxy ...

The Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD), enabled by default on Windows and supported by other operating systems, can expose computer users’ online accounts, web searches, and other private data, ...

According to a recent small-scale analysis, more than 80 percent of HTTPS URLs are not showing up in Google’s search results, said Gary Illyes, a webmaster trends analysts at Google, in a post on ...

As cryptocurrencies like bitcoin surge in popularity, so do scams. As seen in the cryptocurrency subreddit, scammers have found a way to make their website addresses (URLs) look just like the ...