id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt krebsonsecurity-com-2224 Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock — Krebs on Security .html application/xhtml+xml 3236 277 78 New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with "https://". In reality, the https:// part of the address (also called "Secure Sockets Layer" or SSL) merely signifies the data being transmitted back and forth between your browser and the site is encrypted and can't be read by third parties. "PhishLabs believes that this can be attributed to both the continued use of SSL certificates by phishers who register their own domain names and create certificates for them, as well as a general increase in SSL due to the Google Chrome browser now displaying 'Not secure' for web sites that do not use SSL," said John LaCour, chief technology officer for the company. Load the live phishing page at https://www.xn--bbox-vw5a[.]com/login (that link has been hobbled on purpose) in Google Chrome and you'll get a red "Deceptive Site Ahead" warning. ./cache/krebsonsecurity-com-2224.html ./txt/krebsonsecurity-com-2224.txt