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Chrome Will Drop the 'Secure' Connection Indicator Later This Year

Chrome Will Drop the ‘Secure’ Connection Indicator Later This Year

| | HTTPS, phone tracking, traffic encryption
Browsers historically have used certain visual indicators in the address bar to mark encrypted connections, such as the green padlock and the word “Secure.” However, as HTTPS is becoming the norm on ...
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Cloudflare Launches Public DNS Service with Encryption Capabilities

Cloudflare Launches Public DNS Service with Encryption Capabilities

| | CloudFlare, DNS over HTTPS, traffic encryption
Cloudflare has just launched a new public Domain Name System (DNS) resolver with support for DNS-over-TLS (DoT) and DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), two new standards that aim to protect users’ queries from man-in-the-middle interference ...
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MITM Vulnerabilities Found in Mobile Banking Apps

MITM Vulnerabilities Found in Mobile Banking Apps

| | API implementation, certificate pinning, certificate validation, hostname verification, man in the middle attack, mobile banking, third-party library, TLS, traffic encryption, traffic interception
A team of researchers has found issues with the validation of TLS certificates for mobile banking and other security-focused applications that could allow man-in-the-middle (MITM) attackers to decrypt their traffic. Some of ...