Google Chrome 70 is set to release in the coming weeks, and may result in many “secure” websites being blocked by the browser.<\/p>\n
TechCrunch<\/strong><\/a> reported that Chrome will show security error messages for sites which run\u00a0Symantec certificates issued before June 2016. This includes legacy\u00a0Thawte, VeriSign, Equifax, GeoTrust, and RapidSSL certificates.<\/p>\n The reason for the shift is that Google and other companies said Symantec issued misleading and wrong certificates.<\/p>\n Despite being given a year’s notice to prepare for the change, the report stated that over 1,000 sites in the top one million Alexa-ranked sites are not prepared.<\/p>\n This included big companies like Ferrari – which subsequently updated its certificates.<\/p>\n TechCrunch said Chrome 70 is set to roll out on 16 October 2018.<\/p>\n Google Chrome 70 is set to release in the coming weeks, and may result in many “secure” websites being blocked by the browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":217834,"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":[54409,167,1137,411],"class_list":["post-279111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-chrome-70","tag-google","tag-google-chrome","tag-symantec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279111"}],"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=279111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279113,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279111\/revisions\/279113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Google shutting down Google+<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"