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Insecure HTTP D-Day

posted onJuly 23, 2018
by l33tdawg
The Register
Credit: The Register

Google Chrome users who visit unencrypted websites will be confronted with warnings from tomorrow.

The changes will come for surfers using the latest version of Google Chrome, version 68. Any web page not running HTTPS with a valid TLS certificate will show a "Not secure" warning in the Chrome address bar from version 68 onwards. The warning will apply both to internet-facing websites and intranet sites accessed through Chrome, which has approximately 60 per cent market share.

The Chrome update is designed to spur sites still stuck on HTTP to move over to HTTPS, as Google explained back in February. The web has made great strides in that direction of late but much work is yet to be done.

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