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At some point, there is a good chance your information will be taken from a website. The more websites you sign up to the chances increase further. The best defence is to ensure unique passwords are used for every website, one of the reasons we gave last year for using a password manager like LastPass. … Read more
Chrome 70 released in October 2018 display a red ‘Not secure’ label when entering text on a website that doesn’t have HTTPS certificates. This is only 1 month after Chrome 69 dropped the green ‘Secure’ label from websites, displaying only a grey padlock for websites with an HTTPS certificate. Google is making these updates to … Read more
For many years I resisted trying a password manager for the countless passwords I needed to use, for work and personal use. I didn’t see the need for one when I was able to memorise most of the passwords I used. My banking passwords were always unique, and the same for similarly sensitive services. Some … Read more
The September release of Chrome 69 is the first major facelift since its release in 2008. The style changes are immediately noticeable when Chrome is loaded up the first time after the update has been installed. The tabs have a softer, lighter design with rounded tabs, replacing the dated angular grey tabs Chrome has used … Read more
When using Google Chrome, the way a website is displayed as Secure or Not Secure is changing in 2018. The idea behind these changes is that users should expect that the web is safe by default, and be warned when there’s a security concern. This reverses the common browser behaviour that shows a positive indication … Read more
If you haven’t already heard about it, Meltdown and Spectre were publicly revealed in 2018 as three security threats taking advantage of vulnerabilities in most CPUs made since 1995. Two of the threats are named together as Spectre, the other is Meltdown. The flaws were discovered in 2017, and are based on two techniques used … Read more
It has been a month since writing HTTP is Not Secure, about the October release of Chrome version 62, and its introduction of viewing HTTP based websites as “Not secure”. So I thought I’d have a look at the usage of the new version of Chrome. In October 2017, Chrome 62 barely registered at only … Read more
HTTP is a familiar acronym in web browsers, even if you don’t know what it means (it’s Hyper Text Transport Protocol if you want to know). Sometimes HTTPS is used, which means it is Secure with an SSL certificate to encrypt information between the web browser and the web server so anyone capturing the information … Read more