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What does that green padlock on a website really mean, what's the difference between DV OV and EV certs? What does a CA do?

We've been taught to look for HTTPS and the padlock before trusting a website, but is a secure website actually a safe website?

Google’s Chrome web browser is used by over 50% of users on the web. When you visit a website that is using SSL, otherwise known as HTTPS or TLS, you see a green message in your browser location bar t…

Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Team In January, we began our quest to improve how Chrome communicates the connection security...

"Chrome will soon mark non-secure pages containing password and credit card input fields as Not Secure in the URL bar."

Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Team [Updated on 12/5/16 with instructions for developers] Developers : Read more about how to ...

You should always protect all of your websites with HTTPS, even if they don’t handle sensitive communications. HTTPS provides critical security and data integrity both for your websites and for the pe…

In case you haven't noticed, we're on a rapid march towards a "secure by default" web when it comes to protecting traffic. For example, back in Feb this year, 20% of the Alexa Top 1 Million sites were…

Help guides on moving sites from HTTP to HTTPS

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) has been around since 1991, and we haven’t seen a major update since 1999, when HTTP/1.1 was released. During this time a lot of performance best practices have been...

Last year we made a big step towards making the SSL certificates more widely used. We backed financially the super cool open SSL project Let’s Encrypt and

When you move your site to ssl, you have to adjust your settings in Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools/Search Console accordingly. It’s not much work, but it’s important you fix it. In short,...

TL;DR — HTTP/2 is awesome, but requires HTTPS, which is hard to setup. Let’s Encrypt and WordPress c...