Do you know what the padlock symbol in your internet browser’s address bar means? If not, you’re not alone. New research by my colleagues and I shows that only 5% of UK adults understand the padlock’s ...

Analysis: The padlock symbol means data sent between the web server and the user's computer is encrypted and can't be read by others, but many don't know that Do you know what the padlock symbol in ...

It's something that many of us look at every day without thinking twice. But it turns out most of us have no clue what the padlock icon on Google Chrome indicates - and experts warn that our ignorance ...

The padlock symbol on a web browser simply means that the data being sent between the web server and the user’s computer is encrypted and cannot be read by others. But when we asked people what they ...