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Many websites still use HTTP, but any site that asks you for personal or financial information needs to be using HTTPS or they cannot make any guarantees about the safety of your information. This threat is significantly more likely when you are on public wifi networks such as at the airport or a coffee shop. This could be obtrusive – such as inserting advertisements onto the page, or malicious – such as stealing cookies.

The content on the page could be modified or replaced using a ‘man-in-the-middle’ attack.

If you do, that data is being sent onto the internet without encryption where it could be read and stolen by other parties that can view internet traffic. You should never enter passwords or credit card numbers on a page showing this icon.

Data that you send and receive can easily be stolen.

There are two major threats when you connect over HTTP: If you are seeing this icon it means any information you share with the website is not secure because the connection was made with the HTTP protocol. Just seeing “ on its own is not enough – if the padlock is not there then your connection is not completely secure. When you have a secure connection Chrome will display a ‘padlock’ icon. Google Chrome likes when websites use HTTPS because it means they can feel more confident that your information is safe. HTTPS adds SSL (another protocol) into the mix to provide encryption and authentication which keeps the information private between your computer and the website. HTTPS (notice the S on the end) is the secure protocol.

Here is an example: An example of a page with the “Information Symbol” which indicates your connection is not secure. You will see the grey circle with an i – the “Information Symbol” – when you are connected over HTTP. When you are connected to a website over HTTP the content of the page can easily be changed and the information you enter in can easily be stolen. The meaning of those acronyms don’t matter – what you want to know is that one of those protocols is secure and one isn’t.

Which one is used depends on what the website tells your browser to do. When you connect to a website your browser uses the HTTP protocol or the HTTPS protocol. It tells you when your connection to a website is not secure. The lowercase i with a circle around it is formally known as the Information Symbol. Have you seen this ‘circle with an i’ icon in Google’s Chrome web browser? Wondered what it meant? In Everything Encryption The grey ‘circle with an i’ symbol indicates your connection is not secure.