Things will get even more obvious in October. If unencrypted websites accept user data entry, the "Not secure" legend will turn red, with a red warning triangle when the user starts typing.

General access for non-subscriber accounts was made available on June 25. Until Friday, July 5, however, the app stored all chat logs in unencrypted plain-text files on users’ hard drives.

The Stakes Have Never Been Higher Data breaches aren’t just making headlines—they’re destroying reputations and draining bank ...

Soon, you may see a warning in Gmail that tells you that an email has arrived over an unencrypted connection. Gmail already defaults to using HTTPS for the connections between your browser and its ...

Datapp, a Windows program developed at the University of New Haven, sniffs out unencrypted mobile data sent over HTTP. Last fall, researchers at the University of New Haven’s Cyber Forensics ...

Texas-based healthcare services provider HMG Healthcare LLC is the latest company to be hacked as a data breach resulted in the theft of personally identifiable information and medical records ...

So, assuming you trust Marriott's statement, that's good at least. As the New York Times notes, that hackers got so many unencrypted passport numbers is particularly worrying.

T he NSA discovered a handy loophole; many trackers are unencrypted. Thus, the NSA could easily tap into a website's data exchange and also collect the traffic data of users.

Marriott International said Friday that 5.25 million unencrypted passport numbers were stolen as part of a data breach it disclosed in November — but it also walked back the total number of ...

To help alert users about the risk in opening unencrypted email, the search company is currently working on warnings that will pop up when messages from unencrypted sources are received.

These unencrypted pager messages are a valuable source of passive intelligence, the gathering of information that is unintentionally leaked by networked or connected organizations.

The bad news is that the company confirmed that more than five million unencrypted passport numbers were stolen, on top of the more than 20 million encrypted passport numbers. That might be a ...