To Combat Firesheep, Microsoft's Bing Looking Into SSL

Microsoft’s Bing is looking into SSL and other privacy settings for the next version of their search engine. Currently the site strips SSL when forced into HTTPS and in turn, brings up an advisory on browsers signaling an unsafe connection. Introduced at Toorcon, the Firefox extension allows...

Firefox 4 to Include HTTP Strict Transport Security Support

In an effort to help mitigate man-in-the-middle attacks that make normal HTTP connections look like secured HTTPS sessions, Mozilla is adding support in Firefox 4 for a new technology called HTTP Strict Transport Security that enables site operators to tell browsers to always request an HTTPS...