On Sunday, YouTube became unreachable from most, if not all, of the Internet. No "sorry we're down" or cutesy kitten-with-screwdriver page, nothing. What happened was that packets sent to YouTube ...

Similarly, security firm Cloudflare has said 542,000 of the web's top one million websites don't redirect to HTTPS versions and will be marked as insecure by Google. So, who's at the top of the ...

Historically, browsers often made insecure HTTP requests to sites ... policies for forms on upgraded pages. Redirects to HTTP from initial HTTPS navigations are also upgraded.

If a website redirects from HTTP to HTTPS but doesn't properly handle all of the necessary details, it can lead to insecure connections or broken pages. As a result, it's important to be aware of ...

Most of the common problems with HTTPS migrations are the result of improperly implemented redirects. (I’ve also had fun times cleaning up websites that changed their entire structure/design ...

HSTS prevents an attacker from downgrading the HTTPS connection to an HTTP connection which then allows the attacker to take advantage of insecure redirects. For example, if a person types in ...

The number of HTTPS errors is about to go up as Google ... which had already been deemed insecure starting with 2004, but many hoped to remain somewhat safe until 2020. Their research, dubbed ...

Chrome’s security team announced today that the browser will start marking websites that use insecure HTTP connections ... require app developers to force HTTPS connections for iOS apps by ...

respectively), users will be told if they’re submitting sensitive information over insecure HTTP connections — rather than the safer HTTPS protocol. These warnings have already been deployed ...

SSL Pulse scans also revealed that over 13 percent of the 200,000 HTTPS-enabled websites support the insecure renegotiation of SSL connections. This can lead to man-in-the-middle attacks that ...