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 ...

Google Chrome will enable "Always Use Secure Connections" by default in October 2026, warning users before accessing public ...

Google announced today that the Chrome web browser will load all public websites via secure HTTPS connections by default and ...

Google has launched Chrome 56 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Among the additions is a new warning for websites that collect passwords or credit card numbers but don’t use HTTPS; improvements to ...

Google is finally moving forward with its plan to discourage the use of HTTP sites by marking them as non-secure on Chrome. The new warning will be rolled out very gradually: Beginning in January, ...

In a move to improve user privacy and security, Google is simplifying its browser security settings. In a blog post, the Chrome security team said https:// pages will only be able to load secure ...

As HTTPS has become more common across the web, Google Chrome is preparing to launch a security option that will block “insecure” downloads through HTTP. While it used to be the case that only privacy ...

Starting with Chrome 62, Google will start marking any HTTP page where users may enter data, and any HTTP page visited in incognito mode Google began in January flashing warnings in the Chrome address ...

Downloads of files like images may be banned if they use HTTP connections – even if they are available from an HTTPS website. Google Chrome will soon restrict certain files, like PDFs or executables, ...

The Web can be a pretty scary place. The power and information it gives users is also available to those with less benign intentions. Browser makers have long been trying to make the Web safer, only ...

Google has rolled out the much-anticipated version 68 of its Chrome browser that, most importantly, labels HTTP websites as “not secure”. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux, Chrome’s latest ...

As part of Google's quest to compel all websites to use the more secure HTTPS protocol, Chrome 62 will flash more warnings when you visit HTTP sites. A few months ago, Chrome 56 (rightly) started ...