The reason that URLs have HTTPS in them is slightly confusing, but it's a good bit of information to know. When you open up the Internet on your phone or computer, you probably don’t think too much ...

Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, Garry Illyes, posted on Google+ early this morning with a clear message to site owners: “please tell search engines about your HTTPS URLs!” According to a small scale ...

Gary Illyes, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, announced on Google+ this morning that over 80% of the eligible HTTPS URLs are not being displayed in Google’s search results as HTTPS URLs, instead ...

Google’s John Mueller explains what HTTPS is, why sites should use it, and answers common questions from site owners. There’s no hiding whether or not your site uses HTTPS, as it’s highlighted within ...

Google Chrome will soon have an experiment that will automatically try to connect to the HTTPS versions of website URLs that you type into the address bar instead of the insecure HTTP version. For ...

In August 2014, Google launched their HTTPS ranking boost, where it would give sites that served up their pages on HTTPS a small ranking boost. But did you know that the only signal Google uses to ...

We’re in the midst of a major change sweeping the Web: the familiar HTTP prefix is rapidly being replaced by HTTPS. That extra “S” in an HTTPS URL means your connection is secure and that it’s much ...

Sniffing HTTPS URLs with malicious PAC files gets easier with a new technique that exploits flaws in the Web Proxy AutoDiscovery protocol. LAS VEGAS — Researchers have found flaws in the Web Proxy ...

Google engineers have been some of the most ardent promoters of browser security features over the past few years and, together with the teams behind the Firefox and Tor browsers, have often been ...