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Web Design Manchester

Google Chrome Update Calls for Every Website to Switch to HTTPS

While using the latest version of Chrome browser you might notice Chrome version 68 or 69 shows a circled “I” icon at the top left, at the web address search tab. On clicking, it returns a notification whereby,” Your connection to this site is not secure”. One can find this not comfortable if you to compare it to the green padlock on most sites by web design Manchester, that means secure implicating your connection is under HTTPS protection. Do you know why major players in the tech industry to name some, Google and Mozilla promote good initiatives and collaborate with website companies and developers such as web design Manchester to ensure site owners switch over from HTTP to HTTPS – said to be more secure. Currently, Chrome is advancing its browser to change the manner of handling HTTP websites who don’t encrypt their data.

According to web design Manchester, HTTP which stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol which in the past has found wide application in world web; since the work of HTTP is to fetch web pages from the respective server that hosts them. One big con with HTTP is that it offers no protection on encrypted communications that block eavesdropping.

Here is the Bad Side of HTTP

Although HTTP has applied on the web, it is vulnerable to problems that might arise if anyone controls the entire network. As suggested by Nick Sullivan, head of cryptography at Cloudflare, a web traffic analytics company, using HTTP for a website will always pose significant problems hence more risk. For your information, once you interact with an unencrypted webpage, this interaction is openly broadcasted to unknown companies spread all over the globe; this, in turn, puts private information such as passwords, email, credit card numbers all at danger – a privacy issue.
Again it poses a security issue since the content on the website can undergo modification without being noticed at all. During the continuous interaction, trackers, malicious virus and ads find their way into the site causing information loss and tampering. Such a malicious software is capable of altering original web content, inject invisible scripts that will mine cryptocurrency at the benefit of someone else; worst of all redirecting users to fake websites through DNS hijacking and usernames and passwords get exposed.

So, where has been HTTPS all along?

Initially, HTTPS was used to ensure any typed data, i.e., sensitive passwords on websites developed web design Manchester get fully protected on the website. However, HTTPS some years ago did tax the processor residing on the server compromising network speeds; so website owners had to make payments for certificates to activate this unique feature. Luckily, the effort Let’s Encrypt where key players such as Facebook, Mozilla and Google and other phenomenal tech giants who came together to sponsor this initiative, have jointly made passing encrypted HTTPS connections an ordinary service. Let Encrypt works hard to issue out more than 600,000 certificates per day. Firefox reports that 73% of the connections made through the browsers are secure. Recent statistics indicate that most of the population are now interacting with secure website connection courtesy of web design Manchester almost 80% of the time they spent browsing.

Are there sites who don’t use HTTPS?

You might be surprised how big websites like Baidu, a Chinese search company, as well as the biggest e-commerce site- Alibaba, are yet to advance to HTTPS. What you usually get on typing their URLs into the address bar is an HTTP page, but on typing “https/” before the URLs, the response is an encrypted page.

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