Posted by Nightwatch Cybersecurity on Jul 25

[Original here:
https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/07/21/advisory-amazons-silk-browser-on-the-kindle-didnt-use-ssl-for-google-search/]

Overview

Amazon supplies the Silk Browser for their line of Kindle tablets. The
browser includes a selection of three search engines, of which Google
was setup without SSL. Furthermore, the browser prevented automatic
redirection to the SSL version of Google’s main site when visiting it
directly….