![]() The contents of the login form are submitted to a secure URL on, which uses an SSL certificate issued by GeoTrust. Its login form is served over an unencrypted HTTP connection, which can expose customers’ login details to man-in-the-middle attackers. For example, Santander’s Chilean website at can be accessed over an unencrypted HTTP connection, but it displays an online banking login form regardless.Ĭhrome 56 declares Santander’s Chilean website as “not secure”. Surprisingly many banks have failed to react to the new browser behaviour. ![]() Chrome also displays the warning on pages that contain fields for entering credit card numbers. This security feature was first introduced in Firefox 51, which was released on 24 January, and then in Chrome 56, which was rolled out in the weeks following 25 January. This is because an attacker could modify the non-secure HTTP form and cause the user’s credentials to be sent elsewhere. ![]() Popular news websites, hotels, pharmacies, gaming sites, and many online banking sites are among millions of websites that are now explicitly flagged as “not secure” by some of the most commonly used browsers.Ĭurrent stable versions of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox now display a “not secure” warning in the URL bar if a webpage served over an unencrypted HTTP connection requests a user’s password – even if the password is usually submitted to a secure (HTTPS) site. ![]()
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