One of our questions was: "On the Google Chrome browser bar, do you know what the padlock icon represents/means?" Of the 463 who responded, 63% stated they knew, or thought they knew, what the ...

thanks to encryption that would help keep outside parties at bay. But now HTTPS connections are the standard, not the exception, and that near-constant padlock icon has faded into the background.

a protocol that allows users to safely send sensitive data such as banking information and login credentials via the web through encryption. As such, the lock icon would be displayed when browsing ...

It means extra security and extra encryption ... So why the change to an icon showing sliders? Google says the padlock is less needed now (95 percent of the web uses HTTPS), and that it can ...

Heartbleed exposed a weakness in encryption at the same time that major ... "This still means that the little lock icon (HTTPS) we all trusted to keep our passwords, personal emails, and credit ...

This protocol allowed users to send sensitive data like banking information and login credentials safely through the web with encryption. Chrome shows the lock icon when users browse a website ...

If you see a padlock in the drive’s icon, it’s encrypted in some way — either with BitLocker Drive Encryption or with Device Encryption. Windows will show a lock icon next to encrypted drives.