At the beginning of March the Chrome browser began marking web pages that do NOT use https for pages which accept passwords as not secure.
Now Firefox is following suit.
Anyone using a password on a page on your website to log into an admin panel for example or to view their account on your ecommerce site, will get a warning:
This connection is not secure. Logins entered here could be compromised.
The warning appears as you enter the username and again when entering the password.
This is more prominant than the Chrome warning which, at present, only shows a padlock icon crossed out and the words “not secure” next to the address bar.
The fact that Firefox is moving to promote https (secure) web pages suggests that this is the way all browsers will behave in the near future.
What should you do if you own a website?
We would recommend that you move to https connection immediately if you provide content that people need to sign in to view or are an ecommerce website (for the whole site, not just the cart pages). If you don’t, visitors may lose confidence in your website because they believe their data is not kept secure.
Others should make plans to ensure you have a secure https connection in the near future because it would appear that ALL web pages that simply rely on http rather than https will be marked as insecure in the coming months.
You can read more about Chrome’s promotion of https pages here.
If you need help with getting an https connection for your website, give us a call on 01780 740893.
