{"id":287,"date":"2018-05-18T11:46:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T11:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2018-06-26T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T15:30:28","slug":"chrome-will-no-longer-display-the-secure-label-for-https-connections-as-of-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/18\/chrome-will-no-longer-display-the-secure-label-for-https-connections-as-of-september-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome will no longer display the &#8220;Secure&#8221; label for HTTPS connections as of September 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Google yesterday announced the next steps for how Chrome marks HTTP and HTTPS sites.<br \/>\n&#8220;Users should expect the web to be secure by default, and will be notified if something goes wrong.\u00a0Since we will soon start tagging all HTTP pages as &#8220;unsecured&#8221;, we&#8217;ll remove the positive security flags from Chrome so that the default unmarked state is secure.\u00a0Chrome will implement it over time, starting with removing the &#8220;Secure&#8221; label and the HTTPS schema in September 2018 (Chrome 69), &#8220;said Emily Schechter, Product Manager, Chrome Security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And go on to say that &#8220;previously, the use of HTTP was too high to mark all HTTP pages with a strong red warning, but in October 2018 (Chrome 70), we will start displaying the red warning&#8221; unsecure &#8220;When users enter data on HTTP pages&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, starting in September 2018, Chrome will stop marking HTTPS sites as &#8220;secure&#8221; in its address bar.\u00a0Then, in October 2018, Chrome will display a red label labeled &#8220;Unsafe&#8221; when users enter data into HTTP pages.<\/p>\n<p>HTTPS is a more secure version of the HTTP protocol used on the Internet to connect users to websites.\u00a0Secure connections are widely considered a necessary step to reduce the risk of users being vulnerable to content injection (which can lead to man-in-the-middle attacks and other data changes ).<\/p>\n<p>Google has been making the web HTTPS for years, but it accelerated its efforts last year by making changes to the Chrome UI.\u00a0Chrome 62, released in January 2017, began marking HTTP pages that collect passwords or credit cards as unsecured.\u00a0Chrome 62, released in October 2017, began marking HTTP sites with data entered and all HTTP sites in incognito mode as &#8220;Unsafe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chromium.org\/2018\/05\/evolving-chromes-security-indicators.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chrome. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google yesterday announced the next steps for how Chrome marks HTTP and HTTPS sites. &#8220;Users should expect the web to be secure by default, and will be notified if something &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-web-browsers"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/ICDSTCMS-json\/ICDSTCMS\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/ICDSTCMS-json\/ICDSTCMS\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/ICDSTCMS-json\/ICDSTCMS\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/ICDSTCMS-json\/ICDSTCMS\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/ICDSTCMS-json\/ICDSTCMS\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/ICDSTCMS-json\/ICDSTCMS\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"ICDSTCMS:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/ICDSTCMS-json\/ICDSTCMS\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"ICDSTCMS:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/ICDSTCMS-json\/ICDSTCMS\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icdst.org\/blog\/index.php\/ICDSTCMS-json\/ICDSTCMS\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"ICDSTCMS","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}