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Google Chrome Will Encrypt Your Gmail Whether You Like It Or Not

06/15/2011, Apparently Gmail has been a rather favorite target for hackers especially from China so what Google did was to start encrypting Gmail through the Chrome web browsers. Basically if you see the “https” in your address bar in the Chrome [...]

Twitter beefs up security by enabling HTTPS

03/16/2011, It took the folks over at Twitter long enough to beef up their security. The micro-blogging service has just announced that they will be offering an optional “always on” HTTPS setting to its users. If you constantly use Twitter on [...]

Facebook to improve site security

01/26/2011, In a recent announcement on the Facebook blog, the world’s most popular social network will be taking some steps to beef up its security for the benefit of its users. In the coming future, users will be able to encrypt [...]

Google makes secure Net connection default

01/13/2010, Google has decided to make default its secure version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that are used by Web browsers whenever one uses their services. Here’s a snippet from the Big G. “Using HTTPS helps protect data from being snooped [...]