When you're browsing online, you might think encountering a green padlock next to the URL means you're on a safe website. That's not quite so. New research from PhishLabs has discovered that half of ...

A massive effort to encrypt web traffic over the last few years has made green padlocks and "https" addresses increasingly common; more than half the web now uses internet encryption protocols to keep ...

It’s been drilled into our heads over the last decade: If you’re on the web and you’re handing over any personal information, make sure the site you’re using has HTTPS enabled. You’ll know the site ...

The "green lock" icon, harbinger of safe browsing, is becoming a trap for unwary consumers. Already abandoned by Google for its Chrome browser, the green lock is an increasingly unreliable indicator ...

Google has announced it is changing the way it marks up secure HTTPS pages, removing the green padlock. The web giant explained in a blog post at the end of last week that “users should expect that ...

For several years now, it has been a widely accepted truth that a green padlock in a website’s URL indicated that the site was secure; however, Krebs on Security reported that "Half of All Phishing ...

Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps. Unfortunately, this has never been more useless advice. New ...