It will also give us direct access to the cookies of the different websites and we will even have a direct access to the “Site configuration” menu. Search: Chrome Select A Certificate Prompt. In the following screenshot you can see that access to our website indicates that it is “secure”, and that is that the certificate used is valid and has not been revoked.

It is possible that they are making a Man in the Middle attack on our connection, and a cybercriminal is between our connection and the web, with the aim of stealing our information. However, if a “Not secure” message appears, it is possible that we are dealing with a self-signed certificate, a certificate that has been revoked or has expired, so in these cases we should be careful. If we have a closed padlock it means that the digital certificate is correct and is valid, of course, the certificate has not been revoked. If we get into any website with the HTTPS protocol, we can see a “lock” just to the left of the web domain we have entered. View the certificate through the address bar In our case, we have found on many occasions that a website is legitimate, but they have forgotten to renew the SSL/TLS certificate, so it automatically stops being a secure site in the eyes of the web browser, to an insecure site because the digital certificate has expired. In the event that a warning appears indicating that the site is not secure, we will be able to examine the digital certificate to see what is happening.

A very important detail is that, when we access a website with HTTPS, it will almost always use a digital certificate that is valid, issued by a CA (Trusted Certification Authority) and that has not been revoked or expired, so We will get any type of warning indicating that the website is not secure.

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