Peaches Posted November 16, 2010 Report Share Posted November 16, 2010 November 15, 2010 5:06 PM PST Forcing browsers to use encryption by Elinor Mills Help is on the way for Web surfers who run the risk of having their Facebook, Twitter, and other Web accounts hijacked over unsecured Wi-Fi networks and other security issues that result from sites not using encryption. A Web security mechanism called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is making its way through the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards process, and two of the major browsers are supporting it. Web sites that implement HSTS will prompt the browser to always connect to a secure version of the site, using "https," without the Web surfer having to remember to type that in the URL bar. It will render useless tools like Firesheep, a Firefox add-on that lets people easily capture HTTP session cookies that sites use to communicate with computers. Firesheep was released at ToorCon last month. HSTS is used in Google Chrome and the NoScript and Force-TLS Firefox ... Read full post as well as user comments Originally posted at InSecurity Complex http://news.cnet.com/security/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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