Shopify announced on Tuesday that it is now ensuring that all pages on all of its over 200,000 online stores can be accessed using SSL encryption. The company says that this will make sure that no data can be intercepted…
eBay Restricts Shopping From Old Web Browsers
eBay announced that in an effort to make shopping more secure, it will restrict site access through older versions of web browsers. This is largely in response to the POODLE SSL 3.0 vulnerability recently discovered by Google. The company says…
Is Google’s Paid Search Query Removal Worth Panicking About?
Google announced that it is extending its secure search efforts to paid search, and that it will remove queries from referers on ad clicks originating from SSL searches on Google.com. In other words, the reason you’ve been seeing keywords “not…
Yahoo Explains How It’s Making All Its Properties More Secure
Last fall, Yahoo announced that it would turn on SSL/HTTPS encryption for Yahoo Mail this year, which it did in January. The following month, they added it to Tumblr. Yahoo has now posted an update on its ongoing encryption efforts.…
Yahoo Adds SSL Encryption To Tumblr
Tumblr announced that users can now enable SSL security. This comes after Yahoo announced late last year that it would encrypt all info that moves between its data centers by the end of the first quarter. Enabling the option isn’t…
Secure Search Is Now On Bing, But It’s Completely Optional For Now
In September of last year, Google began to enable secure search for those who weren’t signed into a Google account. It was seemingly part of an effort to encrypt more of its traffic from the prying eyes of the NSA,…
Yahoo Mail Gets ‘Very Serious’ About Security
Update: A Yahoo spokesperson tells WebProNews, “In addition to making https a default feature by January 2014 for all Yahoo Mail users, we plan to implement 2048-bit encryption keys, which will provide our users with a further layer of security.”…
Google Cranks Up ‘Not Provided’ Keywords, Says Ads Aren’t The Reason
It looks like the percentage of keywords that are listed as “not provided” in your Google Analytics account is going to keep going up, as Google is reportedly moving to switch all users to secure search regardless of whether or…
Chrome 25 Gets Encrypted Search For Users Who Aren’t Signed In
This week, Google launched Chrome 25 in beta. The big feature that got most of the attention was the speech recognition. This version of the browser also encrypts searches from the omnibox for users that aren’t signed in, just as…
Safari Makes Google Searches Encrypted, Distorts Analytics
Mobile Google searches are more secure from Safari on iOS 6 than they were in previous versions of iOS or from other mobile browsers. Apple is reportedly routing Google searches through the SSL version of Google, which Google made the…