GFW Report: on August 20, China's Great Firewall blocked all TCP port 443 traffic, used for HTTPS, for ~74 minutes, an unusual move; the cause may be accidental
The cause of the incident could be intentional or accidental — Something weird happened with the Great Firewall of China …
Epic's new motion asks a US district judge to order Apple to approve Fortnite on the US App Store, calling Apple's continued refusal contempt of court
I'm guessing that even if YGR sides with Epic, Apple could get that overriden on appeal, and Fortnite won't be returning to the App Store anytime soon. … X: @epicnewsroom : Yesterday afternoon, Apple ...
Researchers detail gaining the ability to generate counterfeit HTTPS certificates and more after buying an expired WHOIS server domain for the .mobi TLD for $20
.mobi top-level-domain managers changed the location of its WHOIS server. No one got the memo.
The Tor Project releases WebTunnel, a Tor bridge that mimics HTTPS traffic to help users bypass censorship targeting Tor by hiding connections in plain sight
The Tor Project officially introduced WebTunnel, a new bridge type specifically designed to help bypass censorship targeting …
Google plans to change Chrome's URL bar lock icon, introduced to signify HTTPS, to a “variant of the tune icon”, because “nearly all phishing sites use HTTPS”
Honestly, it's about time. … Tweets: Brian Jackson / @brianleejackson : Interesting. The HTTPS lock icon 🔒 is being replaced with a tune icon. Coming to a #Chrome near you. I remember writing about wh...
Google plans to change Chrome's URL bar lock icon, introduced to show HTTPS, to a “variant of the tune icon”, saying HTTPS is now present on malicious websites
Google announced today that the lock icon, long thought to be a sign of website security and trustworthiness …
Cloudflare says it mitigated a 26M-requests-per-second DDoS attack, the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date, targeting a customer using its Free plan
Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said today that it mitigated a 26 million request per second distributed denial-of-service …
How US agencies are preparing for “post-quantum cryptography” against attackers who harvest sensitive data now for decryption in the future
The US government is starting a generation-long battle against the threat next-generation computers pose to encryption. Tweets: @techreview , @techreview , @aarongrunwald , @statecreative74 , @royvanr...
Firefox 83 arrives with HTTPS-Only Mode, pinch-to-zoom support, up to 15% better page load performance, and memory usage reduced by up to 8%
Release Notes tell you what's new in Firefox. As always, we welcome your feedback. Tim Hardwick / MacRumors : Firefox 83 for Mac Brings HTTPS-Only Mode, Pinch to Zoom, and Performance Improvements Bo...
Let's Encrypt warns phones running Android 7.1 or older won't connect to many secure websites starting in 2021 as they will no longer trust its root certificate
It took a long time, but most of the web now uses HTTPS to securely transmit information, partially thanks to a push by Google.