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The Chrome browser has a serious leak in the autofill feature that leaves your personal info on forms, including fields on WordPress blog comments. The leak could divulge your street address or even your credit card info. Worst of all, you may never even know it’s happening. Discover what info is being leaked and how to protect yourself.

Misconceptions and old rumors abound about converting your site to HTTPS including, why you should do it, why an SSL certificate and plugin are not enough, loss of backlinks, why a green padlock could be misleading, plus site security and performance issues.

Clear up those myths and see how to avoid headaches with the conversion process.

While most site owners only need a free SSL certificate, like Let’s Encrypt, some hosts are being super slow to get on the ball with supporting it. Discover what’s going on and what you need to check at your host before converting your site.

Right this minute, multiple organizations associated with your hosting, SSL, and HTTPS are rolling out changes that may affect your site’s stability, even if you haven’t converted to HTTPS yet. Following is a brief of what’s going on.

That’s a good question. Like you, I didn’t think it would make my site more secure or that I had any data worth encrypting. Here’s what changed my mind about it and why I converted my sites to HTTPS.