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 ...

Google engineers have been some of the most ardent promoters of browser security features over the past few years and, together with the teams behind the Firefox and Tor browsers, have often been ...

An HSTS redirect can be used to force browsers to visit the HTTPS version of a page. These types of directs can be useful in cases where someone links to an HTTP URL instead of an HTTPS URL. When the ...

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 ...

At Search Marketing Expo East, Google’s Gary Illyes presented on an HTTPS panel and shared some very interesting data and history on Google’s HTTPS ranking signal. Gary explained that while only 10% ...

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 ...

In August 2014, Google announced that they would give a small ranking boost to HTTPS with the new HTTPS ranking factor. Now that it is a few weeks later, many are wondering how much of an impact does ...

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 ...

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, ...