Categories: Anti-malware

Chrome Will Tag HTTP Websites as ‘Not Secure’ in Address Bar Whenever User Enter Details

28th April 2017   By Zara Ali

 

                                       

 

Google is working on making its Chrome browser safer for users. The tech giant had been warning websites on using HTTPS instead of HTTP since January this year. Taking another step ahead for security, Chrome has announced that it will mark HTTP pages as “not secure” in the address bar whenever the user enters data on the web page.

 

The company had been using this technique with Chrome 56 that was launched in January this year. It marked HTTP sites “Not secure” whenever user entered password or credit card fields. This step by Google gained 23% decline in the use of such pages on desktops.

 

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