A majority of Mozilla users were served encrypted pageloads for the first time yesterday, meaning their web browsing data was secured from snoopers and hackers while in transit. The HTTPS milestone ...

It's increasingly common for the data that passes between your browser and a website's server to be encrypted with HTTPS, which makes it impossible for outside snoops to read. But you don't get that ...

The push to encrypt traffic throughout the web has resulted in safer and more secure browsing across millions of sites. But not everywhere uses the so-called Transport Layer Security that keeps ...

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 ...

WWDC 2016: Apple to require HTTPS encryption on all iOS apps by 2017 Your email has been sent At a session at the 2016 WWDC, Apple revealed that it would be requiring all iOS apps to use HTTPS ...

Google's ever-changing Transparency Report now includes a page dedicated to tracking encryption progress both at Google and on some of the web's most trafficked sites. Dubbed HTTPS at Google, the new ...

WordPress.com is adding HTTPS support for all of its blogs. If you have a custom domain or a blog under the wordpress.com domain name (like bestcrabrestaurantsinportland.wordpress.com), you’re good to ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google sends a nudge toward the unencrypted web Google sends a nudge toward the unencrypted web Starting in July, ...

Yahoo has announced that it has enabled default HTTPS for all users of its Yahoo Mail service. The introduction was mentioned by CEO Marissa Meyer in her keynote speech at CES, and delivers on a ...

Better web security has become so commonplace that most sites don’t make a big deal about it anymore. Reddit quietly announced on Tuesday it would soon move all users over to HTTPS encryption by ...

Google software engineer Milinda Perera said this week that the company is now rolling out an HTTPS version of every single blog stored away on the Blogspot domain. That means visitors can load up ...