Firefox Nightly Making Small Changes To Site-Identity
You know how Firefox adds that little favicon site-identifier in the address bar? Firefox is about to make some changes to that to make Web sites more secure for users. Jared Wein, a software engineer...
View ArticleSafari Makes Google Searches Encrypted, Distorts Analytics
Mobile Google searches are more secure from Safari on iOS 6 than they were in previous versions of iOS or from other mobile browsers. Apple is reportedly routing Google searches through the SSL version...
View ArticleChrome 25 Gets Encrypted Search For Users Who Aren’t Signed In
This week, Google launched Chrome 25 in beta. The big feature that got most of the attention was the speech recognition. This version of the browser also encrypts searches from the omnibox for users...
View ArticleGoogle Cranks Up ‘Not Provided’ Keywords, Says Ads Aren’t The Reason
It looks like the percentage of keywords that are listed as “not provided” in your Google Analytics account is going to keep going up, as Google is reportedly moving to switch all users to secure...
View ArticleYahoo Mail Gets ‘Very Serious’ About Security
Update: A Yahoo spokesperson tells WebProNews, “In addition to making https a default feature by January 2014 for all Yahoo Mail users, we plan to implement 2048-bit encryption keys, which will provide...
View ArticleSecure Search Is Now On Bing, But It’s Completely Optional For Now
In September of last year, Google began to enable secure search for those who weren’t signed into a Google account. It was seemingly part of an effort to encrypt more of its traffic from the prying...
View ArticleYahoo Adds SSL Encryption To Tumblr
Tumblr announced that users can now enable SSL security. This comes after Yahoo announced late last year that it would encrypt all info that moves between its data centers by the end of the first...
View ArticleYahoo Explains How It’s Making All Its Properties More Secure
Last fall, Yahoo announced that it would turn on SSL/HTTPS encryption for Yahoo Mail this year, which it did in January. The following month, they added it to Tumblr. Yahoo has now posted an update on...
View ArticleIs Google’s Paid Search Query Removal Worth Panicking About?
Google announced that it is extending its secure search efforts to paid search, and that it will remove queries from referers on ad clicks originating from SSL searches on Google.com. In other words,...
View ArticleeBay Restricts Shopping From Old Web Browsers
eBay announced that in an effort to make shopping more secure, it will restrict site access through older versions of web browsers. This is largely in response to the POODLE SSL 3.0 vulnerability...
View ArticleSiteTruth Wants You to Know Who You’re Dealing With
It’s no wonder that your customers have learned to be a bit wary on the Web. Spam steals their attention. Scams steal their money. Phishing steals their very identities. Some of your customers are...
View ArticleAshton Kutcher Twitter Account Hacked, Tweets Promoted in Search
There’s a lot of big news in celebrity Twitter-use this week. First Charlie Sheen joined Twitter and captured the attention of the much of the web (attention that continues today). Now, Ashton...
View ArticleGoogle Encrypted Search Means No Info For Individual Queries
Google announced that it is going to begin encrypting search queries with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) as the default experience at Google.com when you search logged into your Google account....
View ArticleGoogle Expands Encrypted Search Worldwide
Last year, Google announced the launch of encrypted search by default for signed in users. http://www.google.com became https://www.google.com. Now, Google is expanding this throughout the world....
View ArticleShopify Makes All Stores Use SSL Encryption
Shopify announced on Tuesday that it is now ensuring that all pages on all of its over 200,000 online stores can be accessed using SSL encryption. The company says that this will make sure that no data...
View ArticleSafari Makes Google Searches Encrypted, Distorts Analytics
Mobile Google searches are more secure from Safari on iOS 6 than they were in previous versions of iOS or from other mobile browsers. Apple is reportedly routing Google searches through the SSL version...
View ArticleChrome 25 Gets Encrypted Search For Users Who Aren’t Signed In
This week, Google launched Chrome 25 in beta. The big feature that got most of the attention was the speech recognition. This version of the browser also encrypts searches from the omnibox for users...
View ArticleGoogle Cranks Up ‘Not Provided’ Keywords, Says Ads Aren’t The Reason
It looks like the percentage of keywords that are listed as “not provided” in your Google Analytics account is going to keep going up, as Google is reportedly moving to switch all users to secure...
View ArticleYahoo Mail Gets ‘Very Serious’ About Security
Update: A Yahoo spokesperson tells WebProNews, “In addition to making https a default feature by January 2014 for all Yahoo Mail users, we plan to implement 2048-bit encryption keys, which will provide...
View ArticleSecure Search Is Now On Bing, But It’s Completely Optional For Now
In September of last year, Google began to enable secure search for those who weren’t signed into a Google account. It was seemingly part of an effort to encrypt more of its traffic from the prying...
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