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Whenever you visit a secure website, the data flowing between your web browser and the site’s server is encrypted (converted into code that is very difficult to understand and use without having the decryption key).
Encryption is a big deal because it helps protect your personal information from prying eyes and hackers. You’ll know you’re visiting a secure website when the URL in the address bar starts with https: instead of the usual http:. [Read more…]
I have two questions for you:
1 – Do you have a self-hosted WordPress blog that receives a lot of visitors from Google every month?
2 – Do you earn money with that blog?
If the answer to one or both of those questions is yes then you need to make sure your blog is secured with SSL (https) encryption asap!
If your blog doesn’t have any sign-up forms or request sensitive information from your visitors you might be thinking it doesn’t need to be a “secure” site.
Well, that used to be the case, but no longer. [Read more…]
I’ve been sounding the alarm about the need for bloggers to enable SSL encryption on their blogs for some time now, and the time window for getting it done is closing fast.
All the major web browsers are now labeling any non-encrypted page with a form on it as insecure, and Google is planning to completely drop the hammer on insecure sites in July.
The folks at Google have just announced in this post on their Chromium blog that they’re planning to release Chrome 68 in July 2018.
That post also states that that new version of Chrome is going to mark every page with a URL that starts with http:// instead of https:// as an insecure (and thus dangerous) page.
That means starting in July your blog’s traffic will likely fall off the edge of a cliff if you haven’t enabled SSL encryption on it by then. Here’s why: [Read more…]