Google updated their Googlebot Developers Support Page to reflect that Google is now able to try downloading pages via the latest HTTP/2 protocol. This is effective November 2020. The Googlebot ...

HTTP/2 was approved in February 2015 as the successor to the original web communication protocol. While it is in the last stages of finalization, the standard has already been implemented by early ...

Researchers had to notify over 100 vendors of flaw that builds on 2023's Rapid Reset with neat twist past usual mitigations Security researchers Gal Bar Nahum, Anat Bremler-Barr, and Yaniv Harel have ...

A major change is coming to one of the standards of the Internet. An update to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—known as HTTP/2—has been finalized and is in the process of being standardized, ...

In 1989, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee invented the HTTP protocol on a NeXTcube workstation with 25 MHz CPU and several MBs of RAM. The protocol worked on networks with port connection speeds of 10 ...

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.

BLACK HAT USA – LAS VEGAS – A security researcher who previously demonstrated how attackers can abuse weaknesses in the way websites handle HTTP requests warned that the same issues can be used in ...