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Google revealed in February that they would be branding every single website that didn’t use HTTPS as “Not Secure”. They followed through with that promise today with the release of Chrome version 68, meaning that visitors of HTTP websites will now be shown a warning that says the website cannot be trusted.

Google Chrome will now start branding all HTTP websites as “Not Secure” with a warning to visitors stating that the website cannot be trusted. There has been a huge push in the security space to make HTTPS the norm, and Google is now doing their part in making this future a reality.

Google Chrome is the most popular browser in the world with around a 60 percent share of the market space, so this may force popular HTTP websites to buck up their ideas and finally implement HTTPS to protect their visitors.

Troy Hunt, the creator of Have I Been Pwned, has been doing his bit to help web admins with httpsiseasy.com. The website goes through the simple steps of adding HTTPS to any website. He has also set up whynohttps.com, a website that lists the most popular HTTP websites by country.

KitGuru Says: It’s good to see Google and the wider security community push for HTTPS to become the norm. Do you frequent any websites that don’t use HTTPS?

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HTTPS vulnerable to new hacking method https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/security-software/jon-martindale/https-vulnerable-to-new-hacking-method/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/security-software/jon-martindale/https-vulnerable-to-new-hacking-method/#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:30:34 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=146126 As if we didn't have enough security concerns at the moment, here comes another one to make the situation worse. HTTPS, long the staple of website logins, is now said to be vulnerable to a new Department of Homeland Security debuted vulnerability, that allows those using it to potentially steal plaintext information from an HTTPS …

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As if we didn't have enough security concerns at the moment, here comes another one to make the situation worse. HTTPS, long the staple of website logins, is now said to be vulnerable to a new Department of Homeland Security debuted vulnerability, that allows those using it to potentially steal plaintext information from an HTTPS stream.

Unveiled last Thursday at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas by Salesforce.com, the attack is described (by InformationWeek) as a, ” man in the middle HTTPS crypto attack,” that is launched by watching the size of the “cipher text received by the browser, while triggering a number of strategically crafted requests to a target site.”

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Something tells me a lot of people leave this feeling very paranoid

It's still somewhat archaic in that the sender has to have some idea of what the correct information might be. When they strike lucky, the HTTPS response will be smaller and therefore let on that they've guessed correctly. It apparently takes around 4,000 requests usually, but then again, they can be completed in around 30 seconds.

The response from the security community has been to suggest a fix for the HTTPS protocol, but it won't be easy. The only upside of the whole thing is that the hack needs to be triggered on a site by site basis, so it can't be applied to a large number at a time. Hackers would also need to be able to passively monitor the target's internet traffic, which would potentially mean they need to be on the same local network – which is unlikely in a lot of cases.

KitGuru Says: Hopefully that means the HTTPS is relatively safe for now, but as usual, take basic steps to keep your data secure. Use unique, complicated passwords for everything you do online.

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Google aims to boost internet speeds by reworking TCP https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/online/stephen-dougherty/google-aims-to-boost-internet-speeds-by-reworking-tcp/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/online/stephen-dougherty/google-aims-to-boost-internet-speeds-by-reworking-tcp/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:09:41 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=75594 Google's “Make the Web Faster” team has a bold new plan, with the goal being to turbo boost the internet. What these speed junkies have proposed is a number of changes to TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) which is the ubiquitous Internet protocol that is used, but by no means limited to delivering HTTP and HTTPS …

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Google's “Make the Web Faster” team has a bold new plan, with the goal being to turbo boost the internet.

What these speed junkies have proposed is a number of changes to TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) which is the ubiquitous Internet protocol that is used, but by no means limited to delivering HTTP and HTTPS data across the net.

The goal would be to reduce latency between client machines and servers. Google says it can increase the amount of data used to initiate a TCP connection which would result in a decreased timeout from three seconds to one. It would also be looking to consolidate packets using its new TCP Fast Open protocol and adopt a better algorithm that would better manage network congestion. The other point of focus is to develop algorithms that make TCP recover better when used on mobile networks.

The upside to all of the above is that the changes would be backwards-compatible as well as being open source; the downside is there's no way to speed up ratification and deployment, so it could be quite a while before it all goes into solid motion.

Kitguru says: We all have the need for speed. Make it happen Google!

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