In the new browser update, Google will make it even easier to tell when we’re browsing an unsecure site that doesn’t use the HTTPS protocol
New version of Chrome coming soon with important news on the information security front. Big G’s men, as mentioned in the past, will make it even easier to understand when a site you’re about to visit is not secure.
What does Google mean by unsafe sites? Simple, all portals that do not use the HTTPS protocol and, therefore, do not protect with encryption sensitive data entered by users when they visit them. In practice for Google are not safe all HTTP sites that theoretically allow a cyber criminal to spy on our online data. With version 69 of Chrome, unsafe sites will be marked by a label that will bear the words “Unsafe Site”. The label could be characterized by a circular symbol with the “i” of information inside or by the danger symbol in red when we type confidential information on sites without HTTPS protocol.
What to do about non-secure sites
The Google warning for non-secure sites will arrive in September 2018 and, by precise choice of the developers, it will be particularly visible It will be located in the address bar, before the URL of the site you are visiting: in this way it will be impossible or almost impossible to miss it.
But what should we do on an Internet site that does not use this protocol if Google Chrome warns us? Don’t panic, this is information for our security but not a hacker threat in progress. As we see that we are on an unprotected site we should not immediately run away, the important thing is to remember not to enter confidential information on these particular unsafe sites. If Google Chrome alerts us to a site without HTTPS, then, we avoid entering emails and various credentials: a hacker could steal them from us more easily than you can imagine.