Starting in January 2017, Google’s web browser, Chrome, will treat any website encoded in HTTP as a non-secure site if it transmits credit card information or passwords, the tech company has revealed.

Google proposed the addition of automatic blocking of high-risk downloads from non-secure websites in future versions of its Chrome web browsers as revealed by a proposal from Google Chrome security ...

Google Chrome will no longer show whether a site you are visiting is secure and only show when you visit an insecure website. For years, Google has been making a concerted effort to push websites into ...

Much of the web has switched to secure links—that is, when you type in a site like pcworld.com, it serves its pages over an https (“hypertext transfer protocol secure”) connection rather than over non ...

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