Chrome Browser Mark HTTP Sites as "Unsafe"

Google's browser, Chrome announces that it will mark an unencrypted HTTP site as an insecure site. An unsafe HTTP site will be affixed with a "Not Secure" note to the left of the address bar.

This tagging will be performed on Chrome version 68 update. It is planned that the new version of Chrome will be coming soon in July 2018.

In the last version of Chrome browser, version 64, Not Secure warning still uses neutral icons using the letter "i" to the left of the address bar.

The new insecurity information can be found by clicking on the icon. While URLs with HTTPS protocol that has been encrypted, will be marked with a green padlock as well as a description of "Secure".

Reported by KompasTekno from The Verge, Monday (2/12/2018) background of this update due to the increasing adoption of HTTPS as the default web. Chrome also records that as many as 81 of the top 100 sites have migrated to HTTPS.

Since 2015, Google has ranked unencrypted HTTP sites. A year later, Chrome version 56 embeds an insecure sign in an unencrypted HTTP site password column.

Encrypting a site is indispensable. An encrypted HTTPS site protects the channel between browsers and sites visited.

The applied protection will prevent "third persons" from intercepting data traffic to steal information transferred from computer to server. Could be, a third person who can access the router or ISP will do the reconnaissance or inject malware into the main page.

Encrypting HTTP is actually easier to do. Encryption can take advantage of automatic encryption services like Let's Encrypt or Lighthouse made by Chrome that help improve HTTPS quality.