{"id":195982,"date":"2017-01-26T09:41:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T07:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=195982"},"modified":"2017-01-26T09:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T07:45:15","slug":"chrome-and-firefox-call-http-connections-unsecure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/195982-chrome-and-firefox-call-http-connections-unsecure.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrome and Firefox call HTTP connections unsecure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With\u00a0the recently-released <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/195854-firefox-51-released-the-details.html\">Firefox 51<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and the forthcoming <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/191142-chrome-56-will-show-not-secure-warning-for-websites.html\">Chrome 56<\/a><\/strong>, Mozilla and Google have started labelling\u00a0web pages with forms delivered over HTTP\u00a0as unsecure.<\/p>\n<p>Pages with password fields will be\u00a0explicitly labelled as unsecure. Chrome will also mark pages that request credit card information over HTTP as unsecure.<\/p>\n<p>The warnings will be placed in the address bar, with Chrome using the wording &#8220;Not Secure&#8221; to ward off users.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of a push to get more sites to adopt\u00a0HTTP with transport layer security, called HTTPS.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox is also set to include a warning next to the password box whenever a page is delivered over HTTP.<\/p>\n<p>The latest version of the browser features a\u00a0struck-through padlock icon\u00a0on every page delivered over HTTP.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Chrome 56 warning<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chrome-56-not-secure-warning.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-191154 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chrome-56-not-secure-warning-640x49.png\" alt=\"Chrome 56 not secure warning\" width=\"640\" height=\"49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chrome-56-not-secure-warning-640x49.png 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chrome-56-not-secure-warning-768x59.png 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chrome-56-not-secure-warning.png 1166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Firefox 51 warning<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Firefox-example.com-HTTP-warning.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-195988 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Firefox-example.com-HTTP-warning.png\" alt=\"Firefox example.com HTTP warning\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Firefox-example.com-HTTP-warning.png 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Firefox-example.com-HTTP-warning-576x400.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/179188-google-chrome-to-warn-users-against-websites-not-using-https.html\">Google Chrome to warn users against websites not using HTTPS<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 51 and the forthcoming Chrome 56 have started labelling web pages with forms delivered over HTTP as unsecure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":162888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[40144,40852,167,20795,20789,975,20785],"class_list":["post-195982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-chrome-56","tag-firefox-51","tag-google","tag-hypertext-transfer-protocol-http","tag-hypertext-transfer-protocol-secure-https","tag-mozilla","tag-transport-layer-security-tls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196020,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195982\/revisions\/196020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}