A recent Google SEO Office Hours featured a question about whether a security header conferred a ranking influence. It’s not as far out a question as it first appears because a security header like ...

A researcher has created a method for testing and identifying how HTTP/HTTPS headers can be abused to sneak malicious code into back-end servers. Daniel Thatcher, researcher and penetration tester at ...

Security headers are easily overlooked in website audits. While some may say that website security is not an SEO-related concern, it does become SEO-related when a site becomes hacked and search ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. It should always be a top priority for any developer to secure and encrypt communications across ...

This assumption breaks down because HTTP RFC flexibility allows different servers to interpret the same header field in fundamentally different ways, creating exploitable gaps that attackers are ...

When it comes to optimizing your website for search engines, every detail matters — including the HTTP headers. But what exactly are HTTP headers, and why should you care? HTTP headers allow the ...