- Jul 25, 2018
Chrome Rolls Out NOT SECURE Markers on Unencrypted Pages
Google has officially announced the 68th version of the Chrome browser on July 24. What it promises to do is to fulfil what it had to do earlier that is mark all unencrypted pages as ‘not secure’. This is happening after nearly 2 years.
In previous updates of the browsers, it had already begun to mark HTTP pages (the ones that collect personal information like bank data) as ‘not secure’. With the update Google talked about in July 2018, it plans to remove the ‘secure’ mark from HTTPS sites and replacing it with a ‘not secure’ red marker by October 2018.
As per Chrome’s statement, the number of HTTP sites was very high in the past to feasibly mark the encrypted as secure. Because of the increase in secured sales, this feature has become reasonably secure. According to Chrome’s Transparency Report which tracks encryption use between the years 2014 and 2018 from Android and ChromeOS, the encryption rates have significantly increased from 76-42% for Android and 85-67% for ChromeOS.
This report also shows that since 2014, when only 37 websites used HTTPS as default, the number has risen to 83 in 2018. Now ‘secure’ sites aren’t really a 100% confirmation that your data will not be hacked but Chrome plans to make efforts to ensure users have the most secure browser experience.
Read more at techcrunch.com