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Sky news site security risk.

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pete_scott2 replied 1 hour ago
pete_scott2
pete_scott2

There is seriously something wrong with the way Firefox operates. There is nothing wrong with the following site so why am I seeing this message?

Be careful. Something doesn’t look right.

Firefox spotted a potentially serious security issue with news.sky.com. Someone pretending to be the site could try to steal things like credit card info, passwords, or emails.

news.sky.com has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site. Advanced What makes the site look dangerous?

The site is set up to allow only secure connections, but there’s a problem with the site’s certificate. It’s possible that a bad actor is trying to impersonate the site. Sites use certificates issued by a certificate authority to prove they’re really who they say they are. Firefox doesn’t trust this site because its certificate isn’t valid for news.sky.com. The certificate is only valid for: . What can you do about it?

news.sky.com has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site.

There is seriously something wrong with the way Firefox operates. There is nothing wrong with the following site so why am I seeing this message? Be careful. Something doesn’t look right. Firefox spotted a potentially serious security issue with news.sky.com. Someone pretending to be the site could try to steal things like credit card info, passwords, or emails. news.sky.com has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site. Advanced What makes the site look dangerous? The site is set up to allow only secure connections, but there’s a problem with the site’s certificate. It’s possible that a bad actor is trying to impersonate the site. Sites use certificates issued by a certificate authority to prove they’re really who they say they are. Firefox doesn’t trust this site because its certificate isn’t valid for news.sky.com. The certificate is only valid for: . What can you do about it? news.sky.com has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site.

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Paul
Paul
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Hi

This support article should help:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/secure-connection-failed-firefox-did-not-connect

pete_scott2
pete_scott2 Question owner

I already seen the article you linked to before I posed the question. Doesn't tell me anything I didn't know. Anyway the problem rectified itself without me doing anything. So this post can be deleted. Oh and why can we not delete any posts?

amoun
amoun
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Deleting posts mid-stream would complicate the query, also if you have resolved an issue it can be useful for others. . . . . if they search . . . . lol

pete_scott2
pete_scott2 Question owner

Okay so now I have this problem.

I go to news.sky.com and get this url coming up instead. M.baidu.com I have no idea how it got there but when I use Opera browser it loads fine. I have checked addons and done troubleshooting but it still shows the Chinese search engine. By the way I am in China.

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