Safe by Default – Google’s new web security policy

The ‘Secure’ icon on HTTPS web pages has been removed by Google with the padlock soon to follow.  Additionally, all HTTP pages will be marked as “not secure”, as Google aims to create a web that is safe by default.  Previously, Chrome displayed a padlock and “Secure” in green letters for HTTPS secured sites, as HTTP was still widely implemented […]

Cybercrime set to be world’s biggest illegal market by 2021 

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According to a report by respected global information security firm Herjavec Group, cybercriminals will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021.  Cybercrime poses a great and real threat to the global order, financially and technologically. U.S. Army General Keith B. Alexander, in a speech on cybersecurity and cybercrime, said that cybercrime constitutes “the greatest transfer of wealth in […]