Sending data in plain text just doesn’t cut it in an age of abundant hack attacks and mass metadata collection. Some of the biggest names on the Web—Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.—have already ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) completed work on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol 2 (HTTP/2) standard earlier this week. This new protocol will replace current versions of HTTP (1.0 and 1.1 ...

Researchers have discovered a number of security issues related to the new HTTP/2 protocol which could place millions of websites at risk of attack. On Wednesday at Black Hat USA, cybersecurity firm ...

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Cloudflare revealed this week that they battled massive, record-setting distributed denial of service attacks against their cloud infrastructure in August and September.

In August and September, threat actors unleashed the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks in Internet history by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in a key technical protocol.

The long-awaited revision to the venerable (and aging) HTTP protocol is finally here. Here's what's most important, what's to expect, and what to brace for After more than 15 years, the HTTP protocol ...

The future of the web is almost ready for prime time. Work on HTTP/2 by the Internet Engineering Task Force HTTP Working Group is finished, according to group chair Mark Nottingham, who made the ...

HTTP/2-enabled DDoS attacks are the largest Cloudflare and Google have seen and were launched from a relatively small botnet. Over the past two months attackers have been abusing a feature of the HTTP ...