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Twitter has made a small but important change, the site now uses HTTPS by default for everyone. This means that connections to the site are directed via the secured HTTPS protocol rather than the typical HTTP.
All the data, written tweets, your subscriptions and so on, is sent encrypted making it close to impossible... |
14 February 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Google has been rather pushy when it comes to encrypted connections. It was the first major site to use HTTPS by default, for Gmail, and has recently made HTTPS connections default for Google Search in some cases.The company is now announcing that it's deploying a new encryption technology and a new method for e... |
23 November 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Google has announced that it will start sending some of its users to the encrypted version of its search engine. This page uses SSL to encrypt all data from the user to the Google servers, a boon for privacy in some cases and a move in the right direction.But the change also means that websites will no longer get the... |
19 October 2011
06:09 GMT |
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Facebook is moving to add full HTTPS support for its site and this means third-party app maker have to fall in line as well. The deadline for adding a secure URL option as well as OAuth 2.0 support for Facebook apps was October 1st.
With that gone, Facebook is now moving to clean up and enforce the new rule by mak... |
5 October 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Wikipedia has made a big move towards more secure, or at least more private browsing, by enabling HTTPS connections for the entire site. All Wikimedia wikis are included in the update as well.What this means is that users will be able to browse the online encyclopedia via an encrypted connection and not worry about o... |
3 October 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Facebook is working on bringing full support for HTTPS connections on the site. It's enabled HTTPS for its own pages, but is also asking app makers to do the same. Currently, launching a Facebook app usually switches users to an insecure HTTP connection.
Developers had until October 1st to implement support f... |
30 September 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Despite some serious problems that are beginning to surface, the DigiNotar hack is a great example, switching to encrypted web connections, via HTTPS is a great idea for any website. Google, Facebook, Twitter and others have led the way, but more are following.
Wikimedia, the organization behind the massively popu... |
28 September 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Earlier this year, Twitter made secured HTTPS connections to its main site the default for everyone. It was a great move forward for user privacy and security, but there was more to be done. Now, Twitter has announced that it has expanded its HTTPS support to the embedable buttons used by third party websites to twee... |
17 September 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Millions of Windows Live Hotmail users worldwide have already opted to add extra security to their email communication by enabling full-session HTTPS encryption (SSL) for their accounts. In fact, in excess of two million people leveraged the opt-in Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic protocol protection for Hotmail t... |
8 July 2011
07:59 GMT |
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An upgraded version of the Outlook Hotmail Connector (both the 32-bit and the 64-bit flavors) is now available for download from Microsoft enabling customers to benefit from the security advantages of the Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic protocol. Alessio Roic, Outlook Senior Program Manager stressed that the late... |
8 July 2011
05:23 GMT |
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Chrome 14, the future version of Google's browser which just entered the dev channel, will block insecure scripting over HTTPS connections by default.HTTPS is critical for online security in a time when most people connect over wireless hotspots. But, while jumping on the Internet from virtually anywhere is incr... |
17 June 2011
07:33 GMT |
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LinkedIn plans to mitigate the security concerns related to its session cookies by reducing their lifespan to three months and implementing HTTPS across the entire social networking site.A few days ago a security researcher disclosed several problems with LinkedIn's authentication tokens which exposed accounts t... |
24 May 2011
12:58 GMT |
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Facebook has announced a series of safety and security changes which include a new two-factor authentication system and improvements to its HTTPS support.Multi-factor authentication systems combine traditional passwords with additional identification methods, like one-time-use codes or digital keys.This kind of advan... |
19 April 2011
10:43 GMT |
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With 600 million users and counting, it's perhaps understandable that Facebook is very concerned about security and privacy issues. The site is now introducing several new tools and enhancements which should improve the standard in both cases."Safety has always been a social experience: as friends and family, we... |
19 April 2011
10:05 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns that Microsoft has, for some reason, disabled the ability of users in over a dozen countries to enable the always-on HTTPS setting in Hotmail.The option was introduced in November last year and allows Hotmail users to have HTTPS enabled automatically for their entire ses... |
26 March 2011
03:57 GMT |
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Google has been making moves to have most if not all of its services available via a secured SSL connection. Gmail works via HTTPS by default , so does Docs and more recently Picasa. Now, it's starting to ask developers that build on top of the Google APIs to do the same and is issuing a deadline for switching t... |
16 March 2011
13:21 GMT |
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There's a healthy trend among the big web companies, all of them are slowly starting to use the more secure HTTPS connection over the standard HTTP one. Twitter has been offering support for the secure path, but is now upping the ante with the option to have it on by default all the time.With HTTPS enabled by de... |
16 March 2011
06:56 GMT |
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Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging websites like Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo! or Amazon to implement HTTPS by default in order to protect the sensitive information of their users.Schumer (D-N.Y.) expressed concern that people are exposing themselves to hackers and identity thieves when using public WiFi networks like those pr... |
28 February 2011
05:31 GMT |
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A new mass phishing attack targeting Swiss credit card owners was seen using pages signed with a fake and expired SSL certificate.According to security researchers from Symantec, the attackers used a large number of domains pointing to the same IP address and server.The phishing page was signed with a certificate tha... |
26 February 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Google is not wasting any time introducing HTTPS support for many of its products. Earlier this year, Picasa Web Albums switched to the secure protocol and now YouTube is making some first steps as well. The website itself can be accessed via HTTPS, though it's not enabled by default, and embedded videos get the... |
25 February 2011
10:57 GMT |
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After announcing a somewhat crippled HTTPS implementation a month ago, Facebook has made significant progress towards fixing the issues, like enabling the chat functionality.Google is clearly pushing HTTPS into the mainstream by enabling it by default for services like Gmail, Docs, Calendar and more recently, Picasa ... |
23 February 2011
09:15 GMT |
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Google's quest for a more secure web is moving forward as Picasa Web Albums becomes one of the few big Google product to have HTTPS connections enabled by default. Picasa only introduced support for encrypted connections last month and they have now become the default. Every visit to and all communications with ... |
15 February 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Facebook has just announced a new feature that should make the security conscious crowd very pleased, users now have the option to enable a permanent, secured HTTPS connection to the site. This will ensure that all communications with Facebook, from any device or browser, will be done over the encrypted HTTPS protoco... |
26 January 2011
10:13 GMT |
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Picasa Web Albums is the latest Google product to get support for secure HTTPS connections. Google has been on a mission to expand the availability of the protocol to all of its web products and already supports it for many of them. Picasa though, until now, was not one of them. Note that HTTPS is not used by default... |
6 January 2011
11:17 GMT |
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Hotmail announced yesterday that it was offering its users the possibility to take advantage of encryption when using the Hotmail free e-mail service.This will be possible once the HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) for Hotmail is enabled, which will encrypt your data just like it does when you sign in, via s... |
10 November 2010
07:13 GMT |
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GitHub, one of the largest code hosting repositories and collaborative development platforms in the world, started to enforce HTTPS, as the default and only method of accessing the website.HTTPS (HTTP Secure) is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol and the SSL/TLS protocol and is used to encrypt communica... |
3 November 2010
06:56 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of a new phishing attack on Twitter, which tricks users into exposing their credentials by displaying a fake error message about a wrong username and password combination.The attack starts with a direct message sent from compromised accounts, which reads "You have to be the first to see thes... |
9 October 2010
08:39 GMT |
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About a month ago Google introduced a great new feature for the more security conscious, encrypted search. Visitors to https://www.google.com would have their entire session encrypted making it almost impossible to intercept by a third-party. It was a great win for privacy but a very particular problem arose, schools... |
26 June 2010
04:41 GMT |
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Google has extended SSL coverage to its biggest service yet, the Web Search. The new encrypted search offers significant privacy protection at virtually no cost. The HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) is a protocol that makes use of SSL/TLS to encrypt HTTP communications. Even though HTTPS dates back to the ... |
24 May 2010
10:48 GMT |
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Google kept this one until after the Google I/O 2010 conference, but it’s certainly a big announcement. Google has now enabled SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption of its search engine ensuring that any web search user’s conduct stays private. The feature is labeled as a beta and isn’t the default ... |
22 May 2010
04:30 GMT |
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Google had a painful announcement to make last night, revealing that it had been mistakenly collecting personal data with its Street View cars for the past three years. Along with the admission, Google also revealed that it planned to start offering encrypted search starting last week, following a similar move for Gm... |
15 May 2010
07:20 GMT |
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After security researchers and privacy advocates begged Google for years to enable HTTPS on Gmail by default, the company finally decided to do it. The most important consequence is that users checking their email from insecure networks will be protected from Man-in-the-Middle attacks. For well over a decade, the Hy... |
14 January 2010
11:35 GMT |
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In a research project carried at Microsoft, developers broke numerous secure HTTPS connections using a man-in-the-middle attack with the aid of a specially configured proxy. Based on the results of this research, security experts from SecurityFocus revealed several vulnerabilities found in all major modern browsers.T... |
11 August 2009
07:00 GMT |
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Thirty seven security researchers, professionals, privacy advocates and academics have sent a letter to Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, asking him to consider encrypting all connections to Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar by default. Google has openly replied that it is considering such an implementation and w... |
17 June 2009
04:50 GMT |
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With the advent of Internet Explorer 8 RTW, Microsoft has changed the way that the browser informs users that mixed content is available to be displayed. Essentially, the Redmond company has re-focused the dialog box from nonsecure content to secure content, and is making it abundantly clear that selecting the first ... |
15 May 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Gmail offered users, from the very beginning, the possibility to use https (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) in order to prevent their data being intercepted by third persons. The idea behind the protocol is that users' data is encrypted before being launched to the Internet. The team from G... |
25 July 2008
03:40 GMT |
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