Does your site collect sensitive visitor information such as passwords, credit card information, or personal data? If so, be warned: by the end of January 2017, Google Chrome will begin marking sites ...

The new feature, the "Decentralized SSL Observatory" is optional. It's designed to detect encryption weaknesses and notifies users when they are visiting a website with a security vulnerability. This ...

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 ...

Google's efforts to knock the web into a state of HTTPS-by-default is showing signs of working, with a significant rise in HTTPS traffic on Chrome on Android, Windows, Mac, and Chrome OS. A year ago ...

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 ...

For all the attention that the iPhone’s encrypted storage and Whatsapp’s new end-to-end messaging encryption have gotten over the last few months---particularly from the US Justice Department---you'd ...

What is HTTPS, and how can it impact your search rankings? See what Google has to say and what you need to know for your SEO strategy. Recent updates to Google Search documentation have led to ...

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