Website not secure message

Past couple days, intermittently, when I click the username field to log in, a red message appears at the url window stating “Website not Secure”.

If I manually enter the full url as https://eccie.net - it’s ok.

For obvious reasons I don’t bookmark the site, but just entering “eccie.net” seems to open a non encrypted version, not redirecting to the secure site as it used to.

This is accessing from iOS - iPhone.

Not sure if PC’s are having this issue.

Not an issue on my PC with Chrome. I am getting the bad redirect after I login, but then if I manually put in eccie.net it shows me logged in.

Part of your issue may be that different browsers now have different standards of what they consider secure. For example a site might encrypt communications that they consider sensitive like username and password but not everything. Some browsers like firefox and chrome are differentiating between sites that are partially safe by encrypting those items they consider sensitive and those who encrypt everything. And even if everything is encrypted there are different levels of encryption, 128 bit, 256 bit, etc. and some browsers are now looking at the type of encryption and if a site does not meet certain minimum criteria the browser is labeling them as not secure.

Some of this is an outgrowth of new European standards for data transmission and storage. Some of it is related to the increased awareness of the amount of hacking and data interception attempts that are happening. Some site are putting in enough security to get the https naming convention but stopping short of maximum encryption standards. This is because hosting companies charge more for the better security measures. Some browsers and anti-virus programs are calling these sites who are below state of the art and not doing everything they can and popping up warning messages labeling the site as possibly not secure, and even sometimes simply stating this site is not secure.

Some of it is related to the type of security certificate. There are different levels of security for different types of security related to how and by who the certivicates are validated, shared, and stored. It is a new world that we are navigating these days. My company has entire departments and experts constantly examining everything we do to make sure we have no loopholes and our customers are also probing us constantly to hold us to the highest of standards and calling us out any time we miss something. I try to server my customers best I can and when they find a chink in my armor I am grateful and shift in to overdrive to mobilize the troops to correct whatever flaws or holes are found.

I am hoping Eccie is taking all these things serious given the nature of the site.

different browsers are part of it. firefox recently made an upgrade that warns if you try to open a website using http:// where ECCIE some time back when to https:// so it's really up to the user to enter the secure url. if you enter the non-secure url it will still redirect but in some browsers you will now get a message about "insecure login".


just use https:// and it's a non-issue.