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Ways To Protect Your Website From Malware

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Digitalization has taken the world by storm and has penetrated into almost every aspect of our lives and has brought with it a plethora of benefits. Lives have become much more comfortable and convenient and now the world is literally on the finger tips. But like every good thing this one has also come with its own share of cons. Over 1 million new strains of malware are created every day. Your website can be blacklisted by Google that blacklists over 9000 websites every day by just one identified infection. The Small to Medium sized enterprises or SMEs are among the most being attacked. More than 30 thousand SME websites are being targeted every day and the sad news is that over 50 percent of the IT professionals think that they do not face any risk. So here are a few ways as suggested by the experts of a reputed company of web development in India for protecting business websites from the malware. Read on. Keep the Software Updated – You should see to it that the Content Manage...

Chrome Will Remove Secure Label On HTTPS Sites From September

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The Chrome browser"s upcoming versions will focus on highlighting its negative security indicators, even going as far as sunsetting its positive ones. Chrome Security Product Manager Emily Schechter has announced in a blog post that Chrome 69, which will be available in September, will stop marking HTTPS sites as "Secure" on the address bar. Why? Well, because Google wants the default state to be secure. Emily Schechter, explained that the company is now comfortable making this move as a large chunk of Chrome"s traffic is now via HTTPS. Since most traffic is HTTPS anyway, it"s not necessary to draw the user"s attention to the "Secure" indicator anymore. Instead, Chrome will focus on highlighting situations when the user is accessing an insecure HTTP website. That"s why, Google will be marking all HTTP sites as "Not Secure" starting with Chrome 68, set for release in July. Although, the “Secure” indicator in Google’s UI was never...

Starting This July, Chrome Will Start Marking HTTP Sites As "not secure"

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Beginning in July, Google Chrome will check all HTTP sites as "not secure," as per a blog post by Chrome security product manager Emily Schechter. Chrome at present shows nothing about whether the site is secure or not with the version 68 coming, the program will caution site visitors with an additional notice in the address bar. If the site is secure, then you"ll see the green lock icon in the browser as usual. But this isn"t the first time Google will be doing this because they had announced before now that HTTPS sites will be given a preference in search results. It would appear that many sites heeded Google"s 2016 advice as about 50 percent of web requests were HTTPS in 2016 but now Google wants to encourage the other 50 percent to migrate as soon as possible. Google Search started down-ranking unencrypted sites in 2015 and as they put it in the blog post, the new announcement is as because the adoption rate for HTTPS is on the rise with the hope that web...