2016 might be the year that HTTP finally dies. Chrome’s security team announced today that the browser will start marking websites that use insecure HTTP connections to transmit passwords and credit ...

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 ...

Google has launched Chrome 56 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Among the additions is a new warning for websites that collect passwords or credit card numbers but don’t use HTTPS; improvements to ...

Google announced today that the Chrome web browser will load all public websites via secure HTTPS connections by default and ...

Google Chrome will enable "Always Use Secure Connections" by default in October 2026, warning users before accessing public ...

Starting with Chrome 62, Google will start marking any HTTP page where users may enter data, and any HTTP page visited in incognito mode Google began in January flashing warnings in the Chrome address ...

Google is finally moving forward with its plan to discourage the use of HTTP sites by marking them as non-secure on Chrome. The new warning will be rolled out very gradually: Beginning in January, ...

In a move to improve user privacy and security, Google is simplifying its browser security settings. In a blog post, the Chrome security team said https:// pages will only be able to load secure ...

As HTTPS has become more common across the web, Google Chrome is preparing to launch a security option that will block “insecure” downloads through HTTP. While it used to be the case that only privacy ...

Google issued a warning to website publishers that any HTTP sites using forms, login fields and other input sections will be flagged as "not secure" by the Chrome browser starting this October. The ...

Downloads of files like images may be banned if they use HTTP connections – even if they are available from an HTTPS website. Google Chrome will soon restrict certain files, like PDFs or executables, ...

As part of Google's quest to compel all websites to use the more secure HTTPS protocol, Chrome 62 will flash more warnings when you visit HTTP sites. A few months ago, Chrome 56 (rightly) started ...