Google announced today that the Chrome web browser will load all public websites via secure HTTPS connections by default and ask for permission before connecting to public, insecure HTTP websites, ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

Security researchers Gal Bar Nahum, Anat Bremler-Barr, and Yaniv Harel have published details of a "common design flaw" in implementations of the HyperText Transfer Protocol 2 (HTTP/2) allowing those ...

The new DDoS attack vector, which involves HTTP/2 implementation flaws, has been compared to Rapid Reset. Researchers have discovered another attack vector that can be exploited to launch massive ...

A desync attack method leveraging HTTP/1.1 vulnerabilities impacted many websites and earned researchers more than $200,000 in bug bounties. New variants of the HTTP request smuggling attack method ...

Crypto.com is a robust digital currency brokerage offering hundreds of cryptocurrencies and trading pairs for individual investors and institutions. The exchange also offers traditional stocks, ETFs, ...

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of ongoing phishing campaigns that abuse refresh entries in HTTP headers to deliver spoofed email login pages that are designed to harvest users' credentials.

Newly discovered HTTP/2 protocol vulnerabilities called "CONTINUATION Flood" can lead to denial of service (DoS) attacks, crashing web servers with a single TCP connection in some implementations.

New research has found that the CONTINUATION frame in the HTTP/2 protocol can be exploited to conduct denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The technique has been codenamed HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood by ...

Java 18's Simple Web Server lets you use a command-line tool or API to host files and more. Here's how it works. One of the handiest new features included in the Java 18 release (March 2022) was the ...